Re: hardstatus alwayslastline and xterms

[Raymond Page]

David Cannings wrote:

> I use screen with the following in /etc/screenrc:
>
>   hardstatus alwayslastline
>   backtick 1 1200 1200 whoami
>   hardstatus string "address@hidden %c | %-Lw%{= BW}%50>%n* %t%{-}%+Lw%<"
>
> This gives me a bar across the bottom which shows a list of windows and 
> the currently active window is highlighted in blue, a simple tab bar.  I 
> can't remember where I got the code from, quite possibly the default 
> screenrc.  
>
> However, I have now started to use an xterm.  Without the status line my 
> xterm title is changed to show me the current directory I'm in, what user 
> I am (etc).  Some programs (portage in Gentoo, among others) use it to 
> provide feedback on what they are doing.  With the line "hardstatus 
> alwayslastline" this information is not output to the xterm title. 
>
> Is there any way I can use both at once, having a tab bar at the bottom 
> and relevant information in the xterm window title?  Or a 2 line status, 
> one that portage (et al) can use and one for the tab bar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
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What you want is a caption always.  However, you'll find that you might 
want something new for splits if you get that far in your screen experience.

My personal screenrc can be found at 
http://fidget.cns.ufl.edu/~pagerc/screenrc

And as you are a gentoo user, you may like my prompt at
http://fidget.cns.ufl.edu/~pagerc/prompt

I've also got a related question to the escape sequences somebody might 
be able to answer...

Is there a way to negate the focus character?  Essentially I want a 
status line for focused windows to be "hostname window list time" and 
for the split unfocused windows "current window".  Now my problem is 
that if anything expands non-null i.e. non-color escape after a %? it 
becomes true.  Therefore, I cannot do a %?%F==my focused 
window==%?%?%F%:==my unfocused split==%?, because the ==my focused 
window== will expand true for the focused and unfocused windows if I 
attempt to use any non-null expanding escape.

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Raymond Page