diff --git a/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/BaseTerminalController.swift b/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/BaseTerminalController.swift
index edf3662b9..3b4b1a2ef 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/BaseTerminalController.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Features/Terminal/BaseTerminalController.swift
@@ -413,6 +413,14 @@ class BaseTerminalController: NSWindowController,
     override func windowDidLoad() {
         guard let window else { return }
 
+        // If there is a hardcoded title in the configuration, we set that
+        // immediately. Future `set_title` apprt actions will override this
+        // if necessary but this ensures our window loads with the proper
+        // title immediately rather than on another event loop tick (see #5934)
+        if let title = derivedConfig.title {
+            window.title = title
+        }
+
         // We always initialize our fullscreen style to native if we can because
         // initialization sets up some state (i.e. observers). If its set already
         // somehow we don't do this.
@@ -617,17 +625,20 @@ class BaseTerminalController: NSWindowController,
     }
 
     private struct DerivedConfig {
+        let title: String?
         let macosTitlebarProxyIcon: Ghostty.MacOSTitlebarProxyIcon
         let windowStepResize: Bool
         let focusFollowsMouse: Bool
 
         init() {
+            self.title = nil
             self.macosTitlebarProxyIcon = .visible
             self.windowStepResize = false
             self.focusFollowsMouse = false
         }
 
         init(_ config: Ghostty.Config) {
+            self.title = config.title
             self.macosTitlebarProxyIcon = config.macosTitlebarProxyIcon
             self.windowStepResize = config.windowStepResize
             self.focusFollowsMouse = config.focusFollowsMouse
diff --git a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Ghostty.Config.swift b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Ghostty.Config.swift
index 10e5446cc..20a43aa2b 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Ghostty.Config.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Ghostty.Config.swift
@@ -132,6 +132,15 @@ extension Ghostty {
             return v
         }
 
+        var title: String? {
+            guard let config = self.config else { return nil }
+            var v: UnsafePointer<Int8>? = nil
+            let key = "title"
+            guard ghostty_config_get(config, &v, key, UInt(key.count)) else { return nil }
+            guard let ptr = v else { return nil }
+            return String(cString: ptr)
+        }
+
         var windowSaveState: String {
             guard let config = self.config else { return "" }
             var v: UnsafePointer<Int8>? = nil