Feature request: custom webpage title

[wdscxsj]

It seems that ttyd always sets the webpage title to the full terminal command. It's distracting if the command is long, and sometimes reveals too much detail. Could we have an option to use a custom title like "demo"?

Invoking a "demo" script to hide the detail is an easy workaround, but doesn't feel as natural. Thanks for your great work.

[tsl0922]

I'm not going to add this, because you can always change title with shell script, for example:

echo -ne "\033]0;demo\007"

The string demo will be prepended to the page title.

[wdscxsj]

But how to set the title, not to make it even longer? And this doesn't seem to work inside a tmux session... Is there a client option for this?

[tsl0922]

Currently, the default title is always appended to the page title, I'm considering remove it when the terminal title is customized so that the page title will be on your control.

Again, there won't be an option to change the default title, because it may confuse people that the title may be changed later by a terminal program.

[wdscxsj]

OK, thanks for your explanation. 👍

[wdscxsj]

Sorry to bother again... I totally agree that the title shouldn't be changed from the executed command (e.g. a bash session), but it's not what I proposed. Isn't it better if the title can be controlled by ttyd, the "master" process? That is:

ttyd tmux new -A -s demo                # case 1
ttyd -t title=demo tmux new -A -s demo  # case 2

In case 1, the webpage title is a verbose tmux new -A -s demo, and gets longer easily.

In case 2, with an added client option or something, the webpage title is a succinct demo. Fully controlled by ttyd, not affected by what happens in the terminal session.

The point is, what you execute is largely a detail; what you mean makes the title line.

[tsl0922]

Well, I agree it is not flexible here, I will check how it behaves on other terminal applications.

-t is only used for xterm.js options for now, we need a new option for title.

[XianwuLin]

Because I will use the ttyd to open multiple servers at the same time, I want to be able to customize the title like gotty, so I can distinguish which server is from the title. What should I do?

[BiatuAutMiahn]

Any Updates on this PR?

[archetype2142]

Still looking for this update

[tsl0922]

Added support on master, usage:

ttyd -t titleFixed=hello bash