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Tmux window title keeps renaming

Suddenly, both my screen/tmux started changing my windows' names after every command. They keep changing the name to the value of $PROMPT_COMMAND on every single action on the terminal, even after manually renaming them (by Ctrl+A A on screen or Ctrl+B on tmux).

On tmux I already tried to change the tmux.conf settings to disable window auto renaming off, but seems that it was ignored.

I am using bash without the standard /etc/bashrc configuration file. My distro is Fedora 18.

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user1363214 Avatar asked Jun 25 '13 04:06

user1363214


3 Answers

Add the following to your tmux config file:

set-option -g allow-rename off
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Abid H. Mujtaba Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 19:11

Abid H. Mujtaba


Put this at the end of the .tmux.conf file:

set-window-option -g automatic-rename off
set-option -g allow-rename off 

then reload the tmux config file (ctrl + b > : > source-file ~/.tmux.conf).

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Evan Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 21:11

Evan


First, if l0b0's answer fixed your problem could you please mark it as a solution? Second, for those of use who stumble upon this question and are using fedora 19 this redhat bug report may be of interest. It seems like the default value of $PROMPT_COMMAND set by /etc/bashrc has been changed recently. I reverted to the previous behavior like this:

echo 'printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\033\\" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"' > /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
chmod a+rx /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-screen
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ctrlc-root Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 21:11

ctrlc-root