Pane Title in Tmux

Question

On my local machine I\'ve got 3 node.js instances running simultaneously. Each has it\'s own pane in a tmux window called \"servers\". The problem is that it\'s not that eas

Answer 1

This functionality has been added to tmux in this commit. It is not in version 2.2, but it looks like it will be in 2.3.

To enable it:

tmux set -g pane-border-status top

or if you prefer:

tmux set -g pane-border-status bottom

To set a custom text as your pane border status line you can make use of pane-border-format, e.g. like so:

tmux set -g pane-border-format "#{pane_index} #{pane_current_command}"