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By default, tmux will show the title of the focused pane in the status bar. After using rename-window to set a title manually, how do you restore the default behavior?

First idea was to set a blank title, which didn't work. According to the soruce code, it sets the window option "automatic-rename" to 0, but doing things like setw -g automatic-rename on doesn't seem to have any effect (aside from confirming that the option was set).

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setw automatic-rename

This will work on Current window 

setw -g automatic-rename

This will affect global session so all new window will be affected

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  • This still does not restore any dynamically set window names while you had another name set, which is what I wanted (either restore old title, or revert to whatever was set last). But it doesn't look like this is possible without a patch so thanks anyways.
    – tripflag
    Sep 19, 2015 at 19:04
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    @tripflag, yes, it does. I've just tried it.
    – Atcold
    Oct 30, 2015 at 15:30
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    Just to make it clearer to everybody, you have to type your tmux prefix (commonly Ctrl-B) then colon : then your setw stuff
    – Davide
    Sep 27, 2016 at 21:43
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    Or tmux setw automatic-rename at the terminal.
    – robenkleene
    Apr 4, 2020 at 19:39
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@Ahed-eid's answer works only when you use automatic-rename which, as I think, isn't OC's case.

The correct answer is to:

  • set allow-rename on - so your manual setting of window title can be overridden,
  • set automatic-rename on - when you want tmux itself to set window name and title through its mechanism of terminal inspection
  • set automatic-rename off - when you want to control window name and title from terminal (for example from a shell prompt)
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