On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:48:53AM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:45:03 -0400 > Chris Jones <cga2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:26:12PM EDT, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:48 -0400 > > > Chris Jones <cga2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > [...]
> OK, I think I may be bit confused about what you are trying to do here. > If you want to set title based on what you just started in shell it's > possible right now... > http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/screen_9.html#SEC37 > http://aperiodic.net/screen/title_examples > or just search for "gnu screen set window title bash" (or some other > shell) I run GNU/screen full screen with no title bar, etc. on a terminal with 97 $LINES and 318 $COLUMNS (1920x1200 pixels). When I hit CTRL+a" I see a couple of columns on the left hand side of the screen with 1-2 characters in each (my titles are statically defined in my .screenrc and they're one upper-case letter each - R for root/admin shell, S for user shell, W for www/Elinks, M fur mail/mutt, I for IRC..) and one column at the far right with the windows flag (set to $ in most cases). Basically these 97*318 terminal shells do not provide any useful information, since I already have the same in my hardstatus line. Now e.g. I have to go to the bathroom and on the way back to my desk I run into this female co-worker I have carefully been trying to avoid for a week or so and she starts breaking my balls with some documentation issue I have zero interest in. When I do get back to my desk I have pretty much lost track of what I was doing. One thing that might help me get back on track would be to be able to see at a glance what's running in each of my 20 screen windows. This should require hitting one single keystroke or key combo and everything should be nicely displayed in a tabular form. That's why I initially thought the windowlist screen might meet my requirements. Considering it covers the entire screen and has two dimensions (lines x columns) it looks a much better place to provide an overview of the contents of each window of a screen session than either the hardstatus/caption line or the 'CTRL+a w' message? Even if I am not using GNU/screen the way I should (I use it more as a kind of window manager than a terminal mulitplexer) I do believe that one important feature that is not currently provided but rather worked around by the window title tricks you mention above is a screen that provides the user with a legible overview of what's going on in a given screen session. Obviously if I felt that strongly about this issue... nothing should stop me from downloading the source code and patching it to suit my requirements. ;) Thanks, CJ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
