Re: Customizing screen (titlebar and caption)

[Peder Stray]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Dave Waxman wrote:

> I am looking to have my screen setup as follows:
> The title-bar of my xterm should contain the Xterm title for the window
> The bottom line of screen I'd like to have a list of my open windows by
> name/number.  Preferably with some kind of color coding.
>
> How can I do this?

i have the following in my .screenrc

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

which tells xterm to have titles like [pine] (screens name if no title 
of window or [host:/path] (from my shell promt which sets the title)

and with the following line i proagate the hardstatus/title so i get one 
[] for each nesting of screen ;)

termcapinfo xterm|screen 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;screen\007'

then i have:

caption always
caption string "%{= 
bc}[%{w}%0c%{c}][%{w}%n:%t%{c}]%?[%{w}%{+i}%h%{c}]%?%{w}%=%H"

which gives me a bar on the bottom containg the time, window number and 
name, and title if any... and the hostname on the right side

[10:29][0:bash][meta:~]                                           meta

hope this helps ;)

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  Peder Stray