How to rename a pane in tmux

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For those scripting tmux  there is a command called rename-window so e g    tmux rename-window -t  lt window gt   lt newname gt

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Do you mean tmux window  Ctrl   b     if you have C-b as send prefix  it s by default    Also C-b  rename-window  lt new name gt  and tmux rename-window  lt new name gt  work too   As I know you can t rename pane

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yes you can rename pane names  and not only window names starting with tmux    2 3  Just type the following in your shell   printf   033 2  s 033     title goes here    you might need to add the following to your  tmux conf to display pane names     Enable names for panes set -g pane-border-status top   you can also automatically assign a name   set -g pane-border-format   P    pane current command

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Also when scripting  you can specify a name when creating the window with -n  lt window name gt   For example     variable to store the session name SESSION  my session     set up session tmux -2 new-session -d -s  SESSION    create window  split into panes tmux new-window -t  SESSION 0 -n  My Window with a Name

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You can adjust the pane title by setting the pane border in the tmux conf for example like this                    pane border                   set -g pane-border-status bottom  colors for pane borders setw -g pane-border-style fg green bg black setw -g pane-active-border-style fg colour118 bg black setw -g automatic-rename off setw -g pane-border-format     pane index    pane title      pane current path      active pane normal  other shaded out  setw -g window-style fg colour28 bg colour16 setw -g window-active-style fg colour46 bg colour16  Where pane index  pane title and pane current path are variables provided by tmux itself  After reloading the config or starting a new tmux session  you can then set the title of the current pane like this  tmux select-pane -T  quot fancy pane title quot    or tmux select-pane -t paneIndexInteger -T  quot fancy pane title quot    If all panes have some processes running  so you can t use the command line  you can also type the commands after pressing the prefix bind  C-b by default  and a colon     without having  quot tmux quot  in the front of the command  select-pane -T  quot fancy pane title quot   or  select-pane -t paneIndexInteger -T  quot fancy pane title quot

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For those who want to easily rename their panes  this is what I have in my  tmux conf  set -g default-command                          function renamePane                               read -p  Enter Pane Name    pane name           printf   033 2  s 033  r r     pane name                                                      export -f renamePane                            bash -i  set -g pane-border-status top set -g pane-border-format    pane index   T   pane current command   bind-key -T prefix R send-keys  renamePane  C-m   Panes are automatically named with their index  machine name and current command  To change the machine name you can run  lt C-b gt R which will prompt you to enter a new name     Pane renaming only works when you are in a shell

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The easiest option for me was to rename the title of the terminal instead  Please see  https   superuser com questions 362227 how-to-change-the-title-of-the-mintty-window  In this answer  they mention to modify the PS1 variable  Note  my situation was particular to cygwin   TL DR Put this in your  bashrc file   function settitle           export PS1     e 32m   u  h    e 33m   w   e 0m   n          echo -ne   e 0  1 a      Put this in your  tmux conf file  or similar formatting   set -g pane-border-status bottom set -g pane-border-format   P  T   pane current command     Then you can change the title of the pane by typing this in the console   settitle titlename

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