Request: Option to hide title from the main window title bar

[Andrew]

For my workflows, I personally find it redundant for iTerm2 to say the same thing in both the individual tab as well as the main window title bar.

Would love an option to disable displaying titles in window title bars!

[Robbie Gates]

Not answering your question directly, but a possibly useful workaround:

Note that iTerm respects the xterm control sequences (See https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html under Operating System Controls, Set Text Parameters) - I don't believe there are terminfo entries for these.

In any case - that provides for independently setting window and tab title - 

```

# Zsh print - adjust as necessary

# Set the tab title to the current named directory
print -n "\e]1;${YOUR_TAB_TITLE:?}\a"
# Set the window title to the git info (or empty) from above
print -n "\e]2;${YOUR_WINDOW_TITLE:?}\a"

```

 - Robbie

[George Nachman]

You can use the Compact theme, which puts the tab bar in the title bar. Window and tab titles can diverge in some circumstances, which is why they are both shown by default. You can also customize the window’s title to be empty or whatever you like with Settings > Profiles > Window > Use custom window title for new windows using this profile.

On Jan 4, 2026 at 4:09:44 PM, Andrew <andrew.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

For my workflows, I personally find it redundant for iTerm2 to say the same thing in both the individual tab as well as the main window title bar.

Would love an option to disable displaying titles in window title bars!

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