Re: [screen-devel] Hardstatus string is not working properly in master branch

[Maarten van Malland]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your elaborate answer! This helped me a lot to
get things right again. I tweaked your suggestion to make it exactly
look like what I had before:

backtick 0 5 5 "/bin/date" '+%Y-%m-%d'
backtick 1 5 5 "/bin/date" '+%H:%M'
hardstatus alwayslastline '%{#00ff00}[ %H ][%{#ffffff;0}%=
%{7}%?%-Lw%?%{1}(%{15}%n%f%t%?(%u)%?%{1})%{7}%?%+Lw%?%? %=%{#00ff00}][
%{#00d7ff%{6}%0` %{#ffffff%{7}%1`%{#00ff00} ]'

Perhaps this help others as well, as I'm quite sure I'm not the only
one who "borrowed" that line :-)
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:26 PM Amadeusz Sławiński <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:42:43 +0200
> Maarten van Malland <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've compiled the latest Git code to get true color working (which it
> > did, after some fiddling around; I got caught with the latest ncurses
> > bug as well). However, that's all working now, but the hardstatus
> > string I'm using isn't working at all anymore with this screen
> > version:
> >
> > hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{=
> > kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B}
> > %m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'
> > ("Borrowed" from the Arch Wiki)
> >
> > In the latest stable screen v4 this is working beautifully, but not
> > anymore. Is there something wrong in my config file/terminal
> > somewhere, or is there really something going wrong here?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> yes escapes on master differ from those in older versions,
>
> the biggest thing that changed compared to screen-v4 are color escapes.
> Now that it is possible to use truecolor, they were modified a bit.
>  *              d - dim
>  *              u - underscore
>  *              b - bold
>  *              r - reverse
>  *              s - standout
>  *              l - blinking
>  *              0-255;0-255 - foreground;background
>  *              xABCDEF;xABCDEF - truecolor foreground;background
>  *              #ABCDEF;#ABCDEF - truecolor foreground;background
>  *              xABC;xABC - truecolor foreground;background
>  *              #ABC;#ABC - truecolor foreground;background
>
> so for example you can do:
> hardstatus alwayslastline '%{#00ff00;0}[ %{#ff0000;b}%H %{#00ff00}]'
> (don't forget to add "truecolor on" to your config)
>
> Also for date you will want to use backtick and 'date' command as escape 
> commands for getting date were removed.
>
> So something approximating the line you provided (using truecolor escapes):
> truecolor on
> backtick 0 5 5 "/bin/date" '+%m-%d'
> backtick 1 5 5 "/bin/date" '+%H:%m'
> hardstatus alwayslastline '%{#00ff00;0}[ %{#ff0000;b}%H %{#00ff00}][%= 
> %{7}%?%-Lw%?%{1}(%{15}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{1})%{7}%?%+Lw%?%? %=%{#00ff00}][ 
> %{6}%0` %{7}%1` ]'
>
>
> Amadeusz