I'm looking for a way to get the current window title in GNU screen .
I have a script that use screen -X title something to change the window title when running and I would like to set it back to it's previous value at the end of the script.
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2@ radius - I'd put the OS you are doing this in on here. In Windows you'd typically call a Win32 function in AutoHotKey to do this.– J. PolferJul 17, 2009 at 13:54
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I'm talking about GNU Screen not screen like a monitor.– radiusJul 17, 2009 at 14:01
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I've had a bit of a look around the web, and it looks like the answer is "you can't do that, but it might get added in a future version". See thread starting at osdir.com/ml/gnu.screen.user/2008-08/msg00061.html– ZancheyJul 17, 2009 at 14:58
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"screen -X" attach a command to a specified screen session, it has no effect on the window title. Either your script uses an escape sequence to set the screen window title, or your screenrc does. Take notice that screen windows are unrelated to terminal (xterm, etc) windows.
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Try "screen -X title foobar" in a screen window and you will see that it does change it's name like when you do crtl-a-A– radiusJul 17, 2009 at 14:41
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You can take a look at two of my blog posts regarding using zsh kludges to make this work,
I use a combination of factors to do it, primarily a preexec() hook in my shell, which can just as easily work with another shell.
http://blog.psych0tik.net/?p=841
I believe that the code in the post may be outdated, the relevant files are always up to date here:
http://natalya.psych0tik.net/~richo/screenrc
http://natalya.psych0tik.net/~richo/zshrc
http://natalya.psych0tik.net/~richo/profile
If you're a vim user, you'll almost certainly want to set titleold to something meaningful as well to avoid your title getting clobbered on exit.
