Bug 60597

Summary:	screen's default hardstatus line uninformative
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Component:	screen	Assignee:	Phil Copeland <copeland>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	petersen
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Hardware:	i386
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Bug Blocks:	60596

Description Mike McLean 2002-03-01 23:20:27 UTC

screen-3.9.9-3  (and others)

It would be nice if screen's default hardstatus were more informative.

Perhaps you could add the following two lines to /etc/screenrc:
defhstatus "^Et"
hardstatus string "[screen %n] %h"

For comparison, the current default is to have defhstatus unset and the
hardstatus line set to "%h".

Comment 1 Phil Copeland 2002-04-15 19:19:05 UTC

Tweaked.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-07-29 11:08:20 UTC

I would to propose using "%w" instead of "%h" (or at least "%t" in view of
bug 60596 ;-), since having a list of screen windows in the title line is
most useful IMHO.

Comment 3 Mike McLean 2002-07-29 16:33:53 UTC

How about a comprimise?  Change the default defhstatus and hardstatus string
settings in /etc/screenrc to:

defhstatus ""
hardstatus string "[screen %n: %t] %h"

Which for a bash session would result in a title like:

[screen 0: bash] user@host:~/foo

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2002-07-30 07:25:59 UTC

That would be ok, but I think it would be more information having the window
list in the title.

Comment 5 Phil Copeland 2002-08-12 19:10:44 UTC

Ok,.. ahev you two sorted out what you want in this yet?

If not it's going out as is

Phil
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Comment 6 Mike McLean 2002-08-12 20:43:19 UTC

I would prefer

defhstatus ""
hardstatus string "[screen %n%?: %t%?] %h"

(the %?%? suppresses the colon-space when the title is null)

I would rather not keep the screenlist up all the time b/c for many people this
will read "0* bash  1 bash  2 bash  3 bash", which is just not all that helpful.
 People that know enough to manually set the title (^AA) to something
interesting should also know enough to manually get a window list (^Aw).  Those
that really care can edit their .screenrc.

No default can be perfect for every situation, but I really think this one is
the better choice for now.

Comment 7 Phil Copeland 2002-08-12 21:45:57 UTC

ok.. screen-3.9.11-9 is born,.. should be in rawhide in the morning or you can
nab it from beehive/comps/dist/8.0/screen in a few minutes

Phil
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Comment 8 Phil Copeland 2002-08-12 21:59:30 UTC

Closed