unable to set window title in screen

[ruud144 ()]

hi forum,

I have a problem changing the window title on a window in which I start screen.
The situation: my machine is a debian linux machine on which screen is installed. When I start screen and try to change the window title (using a small self made script) the window title changes.
Now I go with ssh to another machine. I change the window title using the same command (a local copy on that mache). Everything OK: the title changes. But now when I start screen and issue the same script to change the window title, nothing happens. Any thoughts?

I have downloaded and compiled screen4.0.3 which gives the same problem. I have searched the archives and tried the strings but without success.
My script changes the window title by sending the string escape ]  ; string ^G. This doesn't work using screen on the remote machine. Other sequences don't work too.

thanks in advance, Ruud

[ruud144]

ruud144 wrote:

I have downloaded and compiled screen4.0.3 which gives the same problem. I have searched the archives and tried the strings but without success.
My script changes the window title by sending the string escape ]  ; string ^G. This doesn't work using screen on the remote machine. Other sequences don't work too.

It was all there in the faq, but I misinterpreted it. After issuing harststatus alwayslastline, I saw that the changed window title was there, only not in the window title bar. It had to be something inside screen and not in /etc/termcap. Which I changed due to my misinterpretation of the faq. I changed the faq by adding that the directions were about the contents of .screenrc.

Thanks for reading, Ruud