Tmux window or pane name won't change in GNOME Terminal

Question

Using Fedora 25 and GNOME Terminal. I have used Tmux for a few years in Ubuntu with a long customized .tmux.conf file. Recently installed Tmux and Tmuxinator in Fedora.

When I open the Terminal. I see that the title is set to tom@localhost:~. When I create a new Tmux session such as tmux new -s panes. The title of the pane is still tom@localhost:~.

Inside the Tmux session. When I open a new window with name console like this new-window -n console. The title won't change to console and keeps saying tom@localhost:~.

I thought maybe tmux is not overriding the titles so I added this to the tmux.conf file:

set-option -g set-titles on
set -g terminal-overrides "xterm*:XT:smcup@:rmcup@"

That still doesn't do anything.

The Terminal settings. I have Profile/Command/When terminal commands set their own titles set to Replace initial title.

I cannot figure this out. What am I doing wrong here?

Eli

Answer 1

I am not exactly sure why it works. But this solves my problem.

Inside the .tmux.conf file I added the line set-option -g allow-rename off. At the top of the file I had the line set -g default -terminal "xterm". I removed this line.

Eli