Re: config to get screen to never touch the hardware status line in xterm

[Alex Tang]

Hi again folks.

Thanks for the info. I primarily use RHEL and CentOS based systems, so 
poking around teh /etc/screenrc shows that they added the hardstatus 
stuff specifically. 

I am able to get what i want by putting

 termcapinfo xterm hs@

in my .screenrc and it works like a charm. 

Thanks very much! 

...alex...

> Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > / Alex Tang wrote:/
> />> Hi folks./
> />> I've been reading on google and in the archives about how folks do cool/
> />> things with the hardstatus and "hardware status" line in xterms.  I'm/
> />> trying to do exactly the opposite...I want screen (when used in a/
> />> terminal program that announces itself as "xterm" e.g. real xterm or/
> />> putty) to never touch the hardware status line (title bar) of the window./
> >
> /> AIUI, Screen will only ever touch the xterm title bar if it has been/
> /> told it's the "hardstatus line" via "termcapinfo" lines that define the/
> /> fs and ts features./
>
> When I've had the misfortune to use CentOS-based hosts, I noticed they
> fucked with the xterm window title by default.  This probably means that
> either RHEL or the guy who built our SOE put stupid nonstandard things
> in /etc/screenrc (or /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm).