Re: set window title from nested screen?

[Peder Stray]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Aaron Davies wrote:

> i can set the window title from a single-level screen (echo -ne 
> '\e]2;foo^G'), but when i try from a second-level nested screen, nothing 
> happens.
>
> i'm running putty-cyg on windows as my terminal, with cygwin zsh running 
> locally, running cygwin screen, ssh'ing into linux boxes, running bash 
> and screen remotely.

I use the following in my screenrc:

hardstatus on
hardstatus string "[%?%h%:%t%?]"

and use the normal \e]0;foo\a in my promt, which result in a plain foo in 
a normal xterm, and [foo] if inside screen, [[foo]] if inside a dual 
screen and so on.

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  Peder Stray