teamocil renames the session

[artm]

The session names that teamocil creates are useless. Session name should either be left as is or set to the name of the loaded layout.

[remi]

For the moment, you can specify the layout name with the name key in your layout:

name: my-session-name
windows:
  - name: foo
    root: ~
    layout: tiled
    panes:
      - pwd
      - pwd

[artm]

thanks, I've eventually figured that out by digging through the sources. But what is the rationale behind renaming the sessions in the first place?

I use a different helper script to "join session or create if no such session exists", so by the time I run teamocil my session is named correctly already. I'd like to lower the number of hups I have to go through now, but still haven't got all the right intuitions in place yet :-)

[remi]

thanks, I've eventually figured that out by digging through the sources. But what is the rationale behind renaming the sessions in the first place?

Honestly, I thought about that when looking in the source code myself a few minutes ago :smile: I think I’m going to change the default behavior so it doesn’t try to do anything if we don’t specify an explicit session name. I think that would be the most logical thing to do. What do you think?

[petrikoz]

May be will add info about key name wich rename session in ReadMe?

[remi]

@petrikoz Yes I will add it soon!

[thewatts]

To clarify - is it supposed to no longer rename the session? Or is that still a work in progress?

When using - I already have my session name, but it gets renamed when launching.

Or perhaps is there a way to run a command through the name key?

Ex:

name: `tmux list-panes -F '#{session_name}'`