way to control the window-name

[kurktchiev]

Is it possible to control what #W gets set to? Right now the only thing I can see is potentially using -B to do something like echo -ne "\033k"$(hostname -s)"\033\\" but that feels icky

[greymd]

There is no other way except by using -B for now.

xpanes tries to set the unique window name in the session due to historical reason.
Because window-name was the only key to identify the window in tmux 1.6.

However, xpanes no longer supports tmux 1.6.
I understand it feels icky and It is good chance to change this behavior.

I don't know when I'll be able to do it, but I'll try to implement the feature to set provided window name in the future 👍

[kurktchiev]

while you are thinking about this, it could also be said that it would be nice to have an option to target a specific window other than the current window to send xpanes to. i can open a separate issue on this though as well.

[greymd]

Sounds interesting. plz create another issue.

[ScrumpyJack]

+1 for easier option to set the window-name