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Screen Session and Window Titles

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(2020-02-04)

Problem

Terminal window titles and screen session titles are different things. At some point, Redhat/Fedora changed what the PROMPT_COMMAND emitted by default.

Solution

In a login shell startup dotfile (for example, I put mine in a >>file I put in /etc/profile.d):

# Screen session and terminal window titles
#  This "should" be reasonably portable/harmless-to-systems-that-don't-understand
# If we are interactive
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  # Print out a string for screen to print as a session title,
  #  then print out a string for putty/kitty/xterm to use as a window title.
  if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  # If we are in a screen session, print out an escape sequence for the screen session title.
  # Either way, print out an escape sequence for putty/kitty/xterm to use as a window title.
  PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ "$TERM" == "screen" ] ;then \
    printf "\033k%s@%s:%s\033\\" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; \
  fi; \
  printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s007" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"'
fi

For screen, this sets a value that screen displays in the hardstatus line as "%t".

Commentary

Goddamn it, RedHat.

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