Re: [screen-devel] Why we changed the windows title display schema?

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:15:47 +0200
Amadeusz Sławiński <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:58:52 +0800
> Bo M <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I have used gnu-screen for a few years. And it makes my daily work
> > more efficiency. And I love it.
> > 
> > But in the recent update of version 4.4
> > $ screen -v
> > Screen version 4.04.00 (GNU) 19-Jun-16
> > 
> > It changes the windows title displaying scheme. And all the windows
> > title are set to `bash`. And I searched over the internet and tried
> > many kinds of method, but still cannot make it works as before. So I
> > have to downgrade it to an older version 4.3.
> > 
> > Here is the difference:
> > For version 4.3:
> > $ C-a "
> >    0 address@hidden:~
> > $
> >    1 address@hidden:~
> > $
> >    2 address@hidden:~
> > $
> >    3 address@hidden:~
> > $
> > 
> > For version 4.4:
> > $ C-a "
> >    0
> > bash
> > $
> >    1
> > bash
> > $
> >    2
> > bash
> > $
> >    3
> > bash
> > $
> > 
> > All the windows are shown as `bash` as above, and it makes hard to
> > detect which window is running in which working dir or host.
> > 
> > I am not sure why it has such change which will bring so much
> > inconvenient. And I also tried to check the changelog, but
> > unfortunately the change logs end at version 4.3.
> > 
> > 
> > Bo.  
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Here is a list of changes between 4.3.0 and 4.4.0 according to git
> log:
> 
> 4c68f0ea9db4727421c7f98cb808f8437db56baa 4.4.0 bump
> bfae454059ee3108d753be90f1679a6b692d73c8 Fix more hardcoded termlen
> 5ecd2b39581286b53d28b291d14554989116990d fix null pointer dereference
> in RC_LOGFILE 23c7d0e19972411900efbd59452e5ff7bb5a69fb fix logfile
> command so it starts logging to new file
> 738fefe659c0cf9ef24e2cb9e082c24140cc6f60 fix compile with -DDEBUG
> 0fae6713ab7dbe0f70538cc9d1d301e83b610ce2 bugfix: vi-style search fails
> on long wrapped lines. 4b2a6de31d8992c9055174e7de862604907a967a Global
> out of bounds read in termcap.c due to wrong loop
> 4b12d96b4a770a17ac279a44ec73cedf26ab4e5b Added support for 24 function
> keys (ie. up to Shift-F12) 785fef09ea088251e9c5523b5330987b4120b32f
> fix impossible if() 1db6b4590418954037f340fc9f394554927d51c4
> Use-after-free 01476b764bc91c96848058f69a3d6ae095719e5e remove unused
> variables xs xe ys 2e2410a668be96bcd64afbba2fd601c237f5a68e Revert
> "change checks for utmp/utmpx in header"
> 84c15c98ab2e800571062bdb1ac98d215edb0cc3 Partially revert "change
> checks for utmp/utmpx in header"
> cbda6528817e772a5f5b3af2bb67d77cdc9699dc Add trivial definitions of
> RFC 2292 CMSG_LEN() CMSG_SIZE()
> bfd4662c36f4a42690ae91df0c21449a5a771a1a Use realpath(name, buf) for
> Solaris b7484c224738247b510ed0d268cd577076958f1b Fix stack overflow
> due to too deep recursion 03b85024504fb1e7cea0c289a16bbe887fa86bc9
> Fix multijob build 31a442974be8f16e0007197431e7c371473110ac Remove
> version number from INSTALL, README and man page
> 10a63e7b24e5f98669d309f9398205ceb0c9b136 4.3.1 bump
> fdd65811ab0e9d730ec1b9865e76ba99cdc84c6d Update ChangeLog: version
> 4.3.0 27a8c9677a95b8de67c91f983b25691f0864c194 Fix off by one error
> when resizing windows
> 
> As far as I can see there is nothing that would explain this
> behaviour, can you try building screen yourself and see if ths bug
> reproduces? (Releases are available here:
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/ )
> 
> Other thing you could do is filling bug report in your distribution
> bug tracker, many distributions do apply additional patches to
> official releases and package maintainer may know better what changes
> they did.
> 
> Otherwise I would try to git bisect, to see if you can locate which
> commit broke it. Do note that v4 releases are based on screen-v4
> branch.
> 
> Amadeusz
> 
> 

And apparently fedora may do weird stuff to your term definition
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/screen.git/commit/?id=d141e2e66048e53a0a54d1a6af393cf8e098fe59
so you may want to check if it isn't source of your problem...
try setting "term screen" or "term screen-256color" in your .screenrc

Amadeusz