Re: Dynamic Title

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, when I exit from it, it changes back because my prompt on my main
> machine is set thusly:
>
> set prompt="%{\ektsch [$HOST]\e\\%}"\%
>

Ok it is more than just postcmd. Let me know if you can make it work
for bash users.

I dont use tcsh

> -Dan
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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?