Re: windowlist string & title not working with -d -m

[Peder Stray]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote:

> * Peder Stray had this to say on [09 Nov 2009, 21:44:46 +0100]:
>
> > Not that often i start screen with -d -m, but i did today and noticed 
> > that some settings wasn't used from my .screenrc, namely "windowlist 
> > string" and "windowlist title".  Looking through the source i notice 
> > that windowlist has the NEED_DISPLAY flag in comms (in comm.c).  Guess 
> > thats not 100% correct as the sting and title subcommands doesn't need 
> > a screen to work, but the other does.  Not sure how to fix it the right 
> > way, but removing NEED_DISPLAY from the flags does at least set those 
> > strings when using -d -m.
>
> Indeed. It has long been fixed in the code (commit b90451c8a, dated May 
> 2006). You can get the latest code (with a whole lot of other fixes and 
> features) here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git

Ah, good, but shouldn't there be a release soon as its over 3 years since 
last?

And while we talk about bleeding edge screen... is there a way to use the 
session-name in the config file to load session-spesific settings?  Right 
now i use export SESSION=foo; screen -S $SESSION and use $SESSION in the 
config, but it's a bit hacky.

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  Peder Stray