how to dynamically STOP changing the tab title?

[Shiyao Ma]

Hi,

I am using autossh. After running autossh, iterm2 tab title will become "autossh".

I'd like to wrap the autossh invocation into a shell script and before the invocation of autossh, I'd like to use some control sequence to tell iterm2 to disable tab name changing.

I am aware one can use echo -ne "\e]1;YOUR_TITLE\a" to change the title. But is there a way to stop changing the title?

Thanks.

Shiyao

[Shiyao Ma]

There are some misunderstanding in my previous mail.

It turns out, the "autossh" in the tab is the "job name". And the "echo -ne "\e]1;YOUR_TITLE\a"" changes the window name.

iTerm2 will form the whole name in the form of "window_name(job_name)".

My problem is, how to use shell to change the job name? Is it possible?

[George Nachman]

You can ask it not to show job names (Prefs>Appearance>Show current job name) or you can prevent the server from changing the title (Prefs>Profiles>Terminal>Terminal may set tab/window title), but there is no way to restrict it to just tab titles or for the shell to set the job name. This could be a good fit for shell integration though. Would you mind filing a feature request at iterm2.com/bugs?

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[Shiyao Ma]

Sure. Will do that later.

BTW, do you know how to clear the window title?

After "echo -ne "\e]1;YOUR_TITLE\a", the title will be YOUR_TITLE(zsh).

Then I want to clear it, so I do a "echo -ne "\e]1;\a", now it becomes (zsh).

The paren is still there.

[George Nachman]

It's a gross little hack, but you can set it back to the profile name.

I really need to redo how titles work.

[Trevor Sayre]

And is there a way to get the current profile name? I use multiple profiles and my precmd() would need to know the current profile name if your "little hack" is to work. Otherwise it would certainly be nice to have a way to release control of the tab title back to iTerm.

[George Nachman]

The ITERM_PROFILE environment var has the name of the profile.

[Trevor Sayre]

Great thank you.

This logic works for me:

function init() {

  vcs_info

  if [[ -n $vcs_info_msg_1_ ]]; then

    echo -ne "\e]0;${vcs_info_msg_1_}\007";

  else

    echo -ne "\e]0;${ITERM_PROFILE}\007"

  fi

}

When the tab title is set to $ITERM_PROFILE, the parentheses go away and it seems to act like the reset we were requesting. Thank you for the hack.