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

Neal,

I just realized that, although one approach is to unset the 
PROMPT_COMMAND variable, another approach is to use the "screen" command 
of "defdynamictitle off" in my "~/.screenrc" file.  With this setting, 
the content of the PROMPT_COMMAND variable does not have an effect when 
opening *new* screen-window.

For a previously opened screen-window, the related "screen" command of 
"dynamictitle off" lets you to turn off dynamic changes to the title of 
the screen-window.

-- Steve Ross

On 5/19/2020 4:06 PM, Steve Ross wrote:
>
> Neal,
>
> Thanks, thanks, thanks!
>
> You wrote:
>
>     I googled your prompt command, it is probably your system default.
>
> My "/etc/bashrc" looks to be exactly the same one as in the book that 
> you referenced.  That explains the particular content of PROMPT_COMMAND.
>
> You wrote:
>
>     ...it is the culprit and recommends "unset PROMPT_COMMAND" ...
>
> I stumbled upon unsetting PROMPT_COMMAND when I looked at another 
> system where the window titles persist... and I noticed that that 
> system does not have PROMPT_COMMAND set.  I confirmed that unsetting 
> that shell variable on my current system does the trick.
>
> (I've referred to the manual page for "screen" many times, but somehow 
> I missed the section that explains the "title-string escape-sequence" 
> and the "title-escape-sequence".)
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- Steve Ross
>