Re: Session name in status line

[Frank Blendinger]

Hi.

On Wed 2009-03-11 12:29, Alexander Steinert <address@hidden>
proclaimed:
> Frank Blendinger, Wed 2009-03-11 01:53 CET:
> > I want to see the name of the session in my caption. As there is no
> > predefined string escape, I tried this:
> > 
> >     backtick 1 0 0 echo $STY
> >     caption always "...%1`..."
> > 
> > but the environment variable STY is not set when the backtick command is
> > executed.
> > 
> > How could I get the session name otherwise?
> 
> Since $STY is not set yet when screen sources .screenrc, you can use
> this trick in your .screenrc:
> 
> screen
> screen $SHELL -c 'screen -X caption always "$STY"'
> 
> I.e. send a screen command to the first window.

This is great, thanks!


Greetings,
Frank

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