How automatically change window name to the remote host name

[liuyuanting1209]

Hi,

I want to change the window name to the remote ssh-to-host name. But I failed to find the way. host or host_short only show's the local "host" name. Could you please help to tell me the method. Thanks a lot.

Thanks,

Sean Liu 

 

[Nicholas Marriott]

There are two ways to do this:

- You can turn on allow-rename and then use the rename window escape sequences (\033k...\033\\) to rename the window from the remote host (say in your .profile), for example: printf "\033k$(hostname -s)\033\\\\"

- You can write a script to do this from the local machine either using the same escape sequence, using tmux renamew, or putting it in say a user variable or environment variable that you can access from window-status-format, then aliasing that script to ssh.

 

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[liuyuanting1209]

got it. thanks very much.

thanks,

Sean Liu

[woosley. xu.]

I had this requirement also, and found such a solution by creating below ssh function in my .bashrc

function on_exit(){
    printf "\033kbash\033\\"
    tmux set-window-option automatic-rename on  >/dev/null 2>&1
    trap - SIGINT SIGTERM
}

function ssh() {
    if [ $TERM = "screen-256" ];then
        trap on_exit SIGINT SIGTERM
        a=${1##*@};
        printf "\033k$a\033\\"
        /usr/bin/ssh $@
        printf "\033kbash\033\\"
    else
        /usr/bin/ssh $@
    fi
    tmux set-window-option automatic-rename on  >/dev/null 2>&1
}

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