Renamewindow

Renamewindow refers to the action or function used to change the title text of a window, tab, or pane in a graphical user interface or terminal session. The purpose is to provide a meaningful, up-to-date label that helps users identify the content or context of the window at a glance. Renaming can be performed automatically (for example, reflecting the current document name) or manually by the user or a script.

In practice, renamewindow appears in various forms across environments. In graphical user interface toolkits, common methods include setting the window title programmatically, such as setWindowTitle in Qt, setTitle in Java Swing, or the Text property in .NET WinForms. In web applications, the browser tab label is controlled by document.title, enabling dynamic renaming as the page content changes. In terminal multiplexers like tmux, a related operation is renaming a window or pane to reflect its current task, typically via a rename-window command. Some window managers and desktop environments also expose properties or hints that influence the title bar, taskbar label, or tab text.

Usage examples include: in a desktop app, window.setWindowTitle("Editor - Untitled"); in a web app, document.title = "Reports - Q1"; in a terminal session, rename-window "Logs". Developers should handle character escaping, length limits, and localization when renaming, and consider accessibility implications, since updates to window titles can aid screen readers and user orientation.

See also: setWindowTitle, document.title, rename-window, WM_NAME, NetWM.