Re: GNU screen 4.2.1 in xterm: hardstatus in window title disappears

[Alan]

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I'm running screen on Ubuntu 14.04, but I get the same undesired behavior on Mac OS X (with screen 4.2.1 compiled from source using MacPorts), and also Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

If anyone could get it working for one platform or the other, it would probably work regardless of platform.

Thanks for your reply.

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Alan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the hardstatus in the window title disappearing using screen version 4.2.1.

The only 2 lines in my ~/.screenrc are:


termcapinfo xterm* 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
hardstatus string "%h [screen %n%?: %t%?]"


In GNU screen version 4.0.3 that I used previously, it set the hardstatus to be in the window title to something like:

computer_name ~ [screen 0: bash]

However, after upgrading GNU screen to version 4.2.1, the "[screen 0: bash]" part of the hardstatus in the window title disappears after I hit enter in the terminal. The "computer_name ~" part stays there. However, the "[screen 0: bash]" reappears when switching windows (e.g. doing a "C-a n"), or creating a new window ("C-a c").

How do I get the hardstatus in the window title to stay put?

Thanks for your help!