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How do I stop automatic changing of iterm tab titles?

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Problem

After switching to using instead of (I didn't like how the default terminal worked with one config file and utilities like with another), the behavior of iterm2 changed. Before, when I set the tab titles manually, they would remain there unless I 'd into another server, at which point the title wou…

Error Output

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

# I…

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Fix for: How do I stop automatic changing of iterm tab titles?

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Go to Iterm's Preferences > Profiles > Terminal Uncheck "Terminal may set tab/window title" Now you can name your tab, ssh into a server, exit and still keep the original tab name. Credit to: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/iterm2-discuss/cz…

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