Neal,
Thank you very much for your suggestions. I looked at the links but I
am still puzzled (although I know next to nothing about Xterm or
"termcapinfo".)
Here is my PROMPT_COMMAND:
$ echo $PROMPT_COMMAND
printf "\033k%s@%s:%s\033\\" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}"
"${PWD/#$HOME/\~}"
I don't think that does any Xterm title resetting.
One other line in my "~/.screenrc" file that may be relevant is:
term screen-256color
Any other pointers?
-- Steve Ross
On 5/18/2020 4:37 PM, Neal Fultz wrote:
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
<mailto: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
