I would recommend checking your $PROMPT_COMMAND - some shell configurations reset the Xterm title, and screen can pick that up as a window title or pass it through depending on your environment.
See also https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x395.html and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6065/gnu-screen-new-window-name-change for example On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 2:33 PM Steve Ross <sr...@forcepoint.com> wrote: > Is a screen-window's title supposed to persist? > > I have created two windows in one "screen" session. I have titled them > both by typing "CONTROL-a" followed by a colon followed by the word "title" > followed by my title, one for each window. > > I have the titles permanently displayed at the bottom of the window by two > lines in my "~/.screenrc" file: > > hardstatus alwayslastline > hardstatus string "%w" > > I don't know if it makes any difference, but I also have > > altscreen on > > The problem is that the screen-window titles do not persist. After I > enter a command like "ls", the title changes to something like > > username@machine:~/Man > > where the directory name is the first first three characters of the name > of the current directory in my home directory. > > Is the lack of persistence working as designed, a bug, or am I missing > something? > > My version/release of "screen" on Fedora is 4.6.2-8.fc30. > > Thanks for any help, > > -- Steve Ross >
