Can I show pane_current_path as window name?

[worldsayshi]

Thanks for a great plugin! It's is almost perfect for me but I'd like the window names to be set to #{b:pane_current_path}.

This could be a duplicate of https://github.com/joshmedeski/tmux-nerd-font-window-name/issues/14 but I'm not sure if the plugin is working as expected for me.

What I see:

What I'd like to see: <Icon> <pane_current_path>

I am running this in Windows Terminal and WSL Ubuntu.

Is there some way to configure the plugin to set the title using tmux variables like pane_current_path (as seems to be the default in tmux) while still getting the icons?

Here's my current tmux.conf (very much WIP because I'm currently learning tmux):

## https://github.com/mischavandenburg/dotfiles/blob/main/.tmux.conf

set-option -g history-limit 25000
set -g mouse on

# for neovim
set -sg escape-time 10
set-option -g focus-events on

# vi for copy mode
setw -g mode-keys vi

# status bar
set -g status-right "#(pomo)"
set -g status-style "fg=#665c54"
set -g status-left-style "fg=#928374"

set -g status-bg default
set -g status-position top
set -g status-interval 1
set -g status-left ""

# rename panes to current working directory
#set-option -g automatic-rename on
#set-option -g automatic-rename-format '#{b:pane_current_path}'

# disable status
# set -g status off
# set -g status on

# count the panes from 1
set -g base-index 1
setw -g pane-base-index 1

# reload configuration
bind-key -r r source-file ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf

# term colors, these are the correct ones according to neovim checkhealth
set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
set-option -sa terminal-overrides ',xterm-256color:RGB'

## https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118381/122597
# create windows in current directory
bind '"' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind % split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"

## https://github.com/cpow/cpow-dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf

# Set leader prefix key
#set -g prefix C-s

bind-key h select-pane -L
bind-key j select-pane -D
bind-key k select-pane -U
bind-key l select-pane -R

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/45010147/439034
#set-option -g status-interval 5
#set-option -g automatic-rename on
#set-option -g automatic-rename-format '#{b:pane_current_path}/[#{b:pane_current_command}]'

# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
#set -g @plugin 'ofirgall/tmux-window-name' # https://github.com/ofirgall/tmux-window-name?tab=readme-ov-file#installation
set -g @plugin 'joshmedeski/tmux-nerd-font-window-name'
set -g @plugin 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator'
set -g @plugin 'dracula/tmux'

set -g @dracula-show-powerline true
set -g @dracula-fixed-location "Gothenburg, Sweden"
set -g @dracula-plugins "weather"
set -g @dracula-show-flags true
set -g @dracula-show-left-icon session
set -g status-position top

#set -g @dracula-kubernetes-context-label "Some Label"

# Keybindings for moving tmux windows

bind-key S-Left swap-window -t -1
bind-key S-Right swap-window -t +1

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

[worldsayshi]

I managed to find a workaround!

Instead of installing the plugin as a plugin I call it from my conf.

1. Clone this repo to some nice location (here I'm putting it in ~/git_apps):

mkdir ~/git_apps && cd ~/git_apps && git clone https://github.com/joshmedeski/tmux-nerd-font-window-name.git

2. Make bin/tmux-nerd-font-window-name executable
3. Include a call to it when setting the automatic-rename-format option:

   set-option -g automatic-rename on
   set-option -g automatic-rename-format '#(~/git_apps/tmux-nerd-font-window-name/bin/tmux-nerd-font-window-name #{pane_current_command} #{window_panes}) #{b:pane_current_path}'

4. Set show-name to false in ~/.config/tmux/tmux-nerd-font-window-name.yml:

   config:
   show-name: false

Quite happy with the result: 💯

[joshmedeski]

Interesting, this is a good idea!

I'll experiment with it later this week, thanks for looking into it.

[joshmedeski]

I didn't find this to be significantly faster, perhaps I'm missing something.

I wonder if bash is the culprit.

[worldsayshi]

No it's not supposed to be faster. It's just a way to display <icon> <working dir> as the tab title. As far as I understood it the plugin doesn't support doing that? But maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

[joshmedeski]

I see! At this point the plugin is very simple: replace the process name with an icon. I think we could support passing other values in the window name. I'd have to look over the available values and determine the best way to make this plugin more flexible.

[chris4prez]

I came here looking for same exact thing and/or similar option. (FYI This plugin is awesome, excellent work.)

Currently I define the following in my tmux.conf for window naming: set -gq @catppuccin_window_current_text "#{?#{==:#{b:pane_current_command},zsh},#{b:pane_current_path},#{window_name}}"

What I would like to do is have an option to define a folder icon whenever #{b:pane_current_path} is defined as my window name.

[joshmedeski]

I think it could work to add a variable that can disable automatic window renaming and allow the user to call their own overwrite options in some way.

@worldsayshi would you be interested in opening a PR?