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Add the ability to name/re-name a window #10469
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Discussed in #10468
Originally posted by joshuaboys January 27, 2026
I know I am finding myself running more and more windows (made up of many tabs.. regularly hitting a ghostty limit I didn't know existed) these days and it would be such a quality of life improvement to be able to rename the windows themselves.
I've looked into it from a Linux perspective and it doesn't look like a huge amount of effort. Basically we copy the existing prompt_surface_title implementation approach but at the Tab level instead of Surface level. (its an oversimplification but that is the core part)
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jcollie commentedon Jan 27, 2026
Note that we already have #9904 for renaming a tab on GTK. Once #9904 is merged it's the logical next step to add renaming for windows so that the window title stays fixed no matter what happens to the underlying tab/surface titles. Not sure about the state of macOS.
joshuaboys commentedon Jan 27, 2026
Yep and I totally glazed over that PR which is great because that handles most of the work I thought was needed.
joshuaboys commentedon Feb 18, 2026
sniped by @prsweet :)
prsweet commentedon Feb 18, 2026
well its only the mac part
mitchellh commentedon Feb 23, 2026
To add some detail here on this feature: when a window name is set, it should only affect the window title. The tab titles should remain their natural state (via OSCs or tab title overrides). Otherwise, this feature boils down to being the equivalent of tab title changing, which defeats the purpose.
SEJeff commentedon Feb 23, 2026
Are you against accepting or adding support for tab title changing (via standard mechanisms or user configurable ones)? It makes using ghostty with a lot of tabs quite unpleasant compared to iTerm2 or equivs.
mitchellh commentedon Feb 23, 2026
Ghostty already has tab title changing. It may not be in the GTK apprt yet I can’t remember but it’s fully hooked up through the core to trigger it. macOS has it (right click or double click the tab title, also in the menu, also in the command palette)
jcollie commentedon Feb 23, 2026
Tab title renaming is fully functional in GTK (on tip).
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SEJeff commentedon Feb 24, 2026
What's left for a release with this feature?
jcollie commentedon Feb 24, 2026
Time. We expect to release 1.3 next month.
jcollie commentedon Feb 24, 2026
Window renaming probably won't be part of the release, but tab renaming will be.
pradiptamitra commentedon Mar 26, 2026
gtk: add window title renaming (#10999)