Renaming tabs with double-click #4736

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opened 2026-01-30 23:55:16 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @Vasiliy-Bondarenko on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

It would be really nice to be able to rename tabs by just double-clicling them and setting new title in some kind of text-box. This name replaces original title and stays until tab closed or renamed again.

This feature is very useful when working with multiple similar tabs like many ssh connections to different servers or tailing multiple logs, etc. Quite often it's one-time sessions and there is no reason to make custom profile for them. Example - hackathon event when you work with a lot of terminal tabs but when it's finished - you never use it again.

For example i use this very feature in IntelliJ IDEs (PyCharm, PhpStorm, etc) all the time.

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Reference: starred/terminal#4736