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Question title says it all.

I am not able to tell which window of my screen session I am in, to find that out I am having to view ^aw (window list) and look at the where the * is to tell which window I am in. WOuld be nice if gnome terminal's title changed everytime I switch windows with in my screen session.

There are quite a few questions in serverfault around this subject but I haven't been able to find an answer to my specific question.

[btw, for future visitors, based on HUB's answer

hardstatus alwayslastline "Terminal Win: %n - [%t]"
hardstatus ignore

don't know how, but it simply did the trick in updating gnome-terminal window's title bar with current screen window.]

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Add these lines to your screenrc:

caption always
caption string "%{kg}%-w%{wb}|%n %t|%{-}%+w"
hardstatus alwayslastline "You are on: %H  | Now is:  %C%a  %d %M %Y |"

I hope this will help you.

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Thanks, though it doesn't change the gnome-terminal's title bar, I can live with this since it puts a permanent status bar at the bottom showing which window I am in. – Murali Oct 6 '10 at 19:18
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Btw, hardstatus alwayslastline "Terminal Win: %n - [%t]" hardstatus ignore don't know how but it simply did the trick in updating gnome-terminal window's title bar with current screen window. – Murali Oct 6 '10 at 21:20
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