Tmux window title keeps renaming

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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.

Possible dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6041178/keep-the-windows-name-fixed-in-tmux — Dave, Feb 22 '17 at 14:41

score 51 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '14 at 17:14

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Add the following to your tmux config file:

set-option -g allow-rename off

answered Apr 08 '14 at 17:14

Abid H. Mujtaba

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score 35 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 25 '22 at 09:45

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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).

edited Apr 25 '22 at 09:45

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answered Sep 17 '15 at 05:08

realhu

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Isn't the second line enough? What is the first line for? – ghchoi May 29 '20 at 03:18
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First line: https://that.guru/blog/automatically-set-tmux-window-name/ Second line: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6041178/keep-the-windows-name-fixed-in-tmux – thiagowfx Jul 02 '20 at 03:12
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For reference, to reload the file "Ctrl-b : source-file ~/.tmux.conf" – Digicrat Sep 02 '20 at 20:11

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '13 at 21:42

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

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '13 at 13:12

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Check whether your PS1 (plus PS2, PS3 or PS4 if those are set) is changing the title:

printf %q "$PS1" | grep -F '\\033'

answered Jun 25 '13 at 13:12

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Tmux window title keeps renaming

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