Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:39:13PM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
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> Gokdeniz Karadag wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > This is more like a story, I am trying to  automatically set
> > "GNU screen window title" equal to the hostname that is
> > connected by ssh.
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> This has been a recurring need, solved in various ways.

I've solved it by prompt hacking; here's the relevant bits from my
.screenrc at work:

# Magic to make PS1 goodness work
hardstatus off
hardstatus string "%t"
chacl :window: -rwx #?
chacl :window: +x title

#####
# With this setup, you can change the current window's title by
# sending an ANSI escape sequence; this will change the window's
# title and the title will show up in the hardstatus line (i.e. the
# title bar in PuTTY).  This sets the title to the current host
# name.  The actual prompt is the hostname followed by $ for bash or
# %# for zsh, which is magic that shows either # if you're root or %
# if you're not.
#
# zsh: PS1="$(echo -e '%{\033]83;title '$(uname -n)'\007%}%m%# ')"
#
# bash: PS1="\[\033]83;title $(uname -n)\a\]$(uname -n)\$ "
#
#####

-Robin

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