I googled your prompt command, it is probably your system default. This book lists it as a default in /etc/bashrc for fedora, for example:
https://books.google.com/books?id=0VRnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA260&lpg=PA260&dq=printf+%5C033k%25s@%25s:%25s%5C033%5C%5C&source=bl&ots=yDkW0btNGw&sig=ACfU3U0JX62IdmvjkAxx1lMi6ExhfR3kuA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAr5ei3sDpAhU8GDQIHYXYAv8Q6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=printf%20%5C033k%25s%40%25s%3A%25s%5C033%5C%5C&f=false This person https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/163692/50441 says that it is the culprit and recommends "unset PROMPT_COMMAND", and there's a comment to also check $PS1. Best, Neal On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:07 PM Steve Ross <sr...@forcepoint.com> wrote: > 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> 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 >> >
