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Re: Capturing title of active window


From: Artjom Gora
Subject: Re: Capturing title of active window
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:09:24 +0300

Thank you for commit!
I'll try it tomorrow morning ('cause tonight I need to finish my
violin exercises before it's too late, that would not make my
neighbors see red) and give you feedback at once.

Cheers,
Artjom

2010/3/29 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <address@hidden>:
> (cc-ing devel. Original post to users at:
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2010-03/msg00019.html)
>
> * Sadrul Habib Chowdhury had this to say on [29 Mar 2010, 12:20:09 -0400]:
>> * Artyom V. Gora had this to say on [29 Mar 2010, 18:26:38 +0300]:
>> > On 29/03/2010-14:42:03, Artyom V. Gora wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > >
>> > > Hi Sadrul,
>> > > One additional question regarding this feature. Every time I doing
>> > > `screen -S <session-name> -Q title` the title appears in message
>> > > line on the bottom of the window. Is there any way to restrict
>> > > such kind of verbosity? It just a bit annoying if I doing
>> > > something in console and my bots execute that query quite often.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your time,
>> > > Artjom
>> >
>> > Hi again,
>> > As a follow up I also noticed that this message suspends any other
>> > output to stdout inside screen. That is while window's title is
>> > displayed in message line we cannot see any output of foreground
>> > programs we are running. To reproduce just run in screen any program
>> > which prints something to terminal (I was running ping) and run
>> > `screen -S <session-name> -Q title` in another console. Than keep an
>> > eye on your screen program's output. Or even easier, run `screen -S
>> > <session-name> -Q title` inside screen and you'll see that command
>> > prompt becomes unavailable until window's title still displayed in
>> > message line.
>> > Is it desired behaviour or something we need to fix in feature releases?
>>
>> There are two issues here:
>>
>> * The 'query commands' are not quiet. There is a plan to allow commands
>>   to be quiet when '@' (or '-') flags are prepended to the command
>>   names. Once that is functional, you can simply use '@title' command
>>   instead of 'title'. It's not complete yet, though, and it requires
>>   non-trivial work. (Also, it looks like '-' is not a good prefix to be
>>   used with remote commands. Perhaps I will change it to use '%'
>>   instead.)
>
> Actually, I have committed the changes required for this [1]. So now,
> you can prefix commands with '@' (e.g. '-Q @title') and they will be
> very quiet! If you can pull the latest version from git and try it out,
> that'd be great! (bug-reports are welcome!)
>
> [1]
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b24b0bc5a3e973c5fc798a7e77c7e13510fa8990
>
> Sadrul
>
>




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