Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

[Gokdeniz Karadag]

Christian Ebert demis ki::
> * Gokdeniz Karadag on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 03:10:00 +0300
> > Setting the following in all machines achieves what I want, it sets 
> > screen title to hostname,
> > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n -e "\033k${HOSTNAME}\033\\"'
> > but when I connect to the machine out of screen, It prints the hostname
> > literally, so the prompt becomes like "hostname address@hidden $ " , which is
> > ugly and redundant.
> >
> > To ensure that only ssh sessions within a GNU screen get the "title setter
> > prompt command", environment variables are useful, I can use the TERM variable,
> > but in stable debian, the default TERM=screen breaks vim editor, it goes crazy
> > when you press home, or pageup buttons.  Using TERM=xterm fixes this, so I
> > cannot check for TERM being equal to "screen".
>
> Does checking for $STY work for your purposes?
>
> if [ -n "$STY" ]
>    <screen specific stuff>
> fi
>
> c

Hi,

That works on the machine where screen is run, but my main use for screen is to 
connect to many machines using ssh.

An environment var. does not get passed to the target shell, if *both* SendEnv 
in the client and AcceptEnv in the server is configured.

When TERM is properly set to "screen", I can use it on the target server 
without extra configuration as I wrote in my answer to Trent Buck.

Thank you for the answer.

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Gokdeniz Karadag