[screen-devel] [bug #56674] Make it possible for screen to ignore terminal commands to change window titles

[anonymous]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56674>

                 Summary: Make it possible for screen to ignore terminal
commands to change window titles
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 26 Jul 2019 03:18:41 AM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/532203/135943 for a more complete problem
statement.

I believe this use case was simply overlooked, because the following
conditions all have to apply before you will feel the pain of this missing
feature (and then you will indeed feel the pain):

1. Working in a large infrastructure with many servers (i.e. thousands),
2. Where you want a consistent name for some window regardless of what server
you log into in that window,
3. And where it is impractical or impossible (organizationally) to modify the
rc files on all servers you might log into.

What I am requesting is a simple option in screen, ideally configurable either
per-window or globally for a screen session, to "set window title sticky" or
some such, so it would ignore escape sequences from the shell, and would only
change the window title if explicitly changed with the "title" command (C-a A
by default).




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