Re: Re: Persistence of a window's title?

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 <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
>