Tmux window title keeps renaming

Question

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.

Solution 1

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

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

Solution 2

Add the following to your tmux config file:

set-option -g allow-rename off

Solution 3

put this in 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. This works for me .

Solution 4

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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Comments

[ghchoi]

Isn't the second line enough? What is the first line for?

[thiagowfx]

First line: that.guru/blog/automatically-set-tmux-window-name Second line: stackoverflow.com/questions/6041178/…

[Digicrat]

For reference, to reload the file "Ctrl-b : source-file ~/.tmux.conf"