Re: Dynamic Title

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is what I have done on the screen server to achieve dynamic title.
>>>>
>>>> in .bashrc :
>>>>
>>>> PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ $TERM = "screen" ]; then printf
>>>> "\033k${HOSTNAME%%.*}\033\\" ; fi'
>>>>
>>>> in .ssh/config :
>>>> # this won't work unless your screen server has openssh 5.1 or above
>>>> host *
>>>>  PermitLocalCommand   yes
>>>>  LocalCommand /path/to/screen_ssh.sh %n
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in screen_ssh.sh :
>>>> # got the idea from http://www.tenshu.net/screen_ssh/
>>>
>>> Why would you tie this to your ssh command at all?
>>>
>>> I have a postcmd in my shell like this (this is tcsh):
>>>
>>> alias postcmd   'printf "\033%s%s %s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$"
>>> "[$HOST]"'
>>
>> You need to create that alias on every hosts. I have 300 of them.
>
> Nope, just the one I ssh out from.  I ssh into about as many hosts as you
> do, but only one or two "home" servers (where my keys live, etc).
>
> Better put, your shell only needs to be modified on machines you run
> "screen" on.
>

with your setup when you ssh to a host it changes the title fine, but
when exit from it
the title does not change back.

with my setup it works perfect.

(also let strong point, i dont want tcsh, i like bash)

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?