I’ve never noticed this, because I’ve used tmux all the time, but recently I’ve started Kakoune outside of tmux and saw this window title:
Funny enough it is exactly my modeline:

What should I change to make it display something like Kakoune: current-buffer
?
I believe Kakoune is hard-coded to set the window title to match the modeline. You can prevent Kakoune from setting the modeline at all with set global ui_options ncurses_set_title=false
, but you can’t change the content separately from the modeline.
You can also see the title inside tmux if you put set-option -g pane-border-status top
in your .tmux.conf
. If your terminal definition includes tsl
, fsl
and hs
capabilities (as putty and termite and kitty and alacritty do), tmux will copy the active pane’s title to the window title if you set-option -g set-titles on
.
There’s a pending pull-request dealing with titles https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/2249
isn’t ncurses going to be replaced?