Renaming tabs with double-click #4739

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opened 2026-01-30 23:55:18 +00:00 by claunia · 3 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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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019):

This is a good idea! In fact, we've already got another thread on this topic, though I don't think we ever brought up the "double-click" to rename. I'll make sure to add that to the original discussion.

/dup #1079

Thanks!

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019): This is a good idea! In fact, we've already got another thread on this topic, though I don't think we ever brought up the "double-click" to rename. I'll make sure to add that to the original discussion. /dup #1079 Thanks!
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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@Vasiliy-Bondarenko commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019):

yep, i see a dupe now. but you are right - double-click is important part of the beauty of this feature. little thing like this make a difference for tools we use so much as terminal :))

@Vasiliy-Bondarenko commented on GitHub (Oct 31, 2019): yep, i see a dupe now. but you are right - double-click is important part of the beauty of this feature. little thing like this make a difference for tools we use so much as terminal :))
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Reference: starred/terminal#4739