Re: question regarding the detection of ssh connections with screen

[Thomas Köhler]

Hi Martin,

Martin Hauser wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> As i am someone who's regularily working remotely on several machines,
> connecting from a local screen session via ssh to those remote
> maschines. Not all of those offer me the possibilty to run another
> screen there. It'd be really helpful for me i could put an
> identification into the local screens hardstatus line which would
> allow me to recognize that i'm being working on another machine right
> now and even better to let me know hostname and maybe even username.
> 
> any ideas? and thanks in advance

Just set the current window's title to "remotehost"?

ctrl-a A

Or even better:
Use 
   ssh address@hidden -all -other -options
and
function ssh() {
   echo -n -e "\033k$1\033\\"
   /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
   echo -n -e "\033kzsh\033\\"
}

(This asumes zsh, but should also work fine in bash)

> Martin Hauser

Ciao,
Thomas

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