Hi


I am having a bit of a problem with .screenrc and trying to find how to make window title to display server hostnames. What I want to do is when I login to server 'A' and I launch screens from there, I will get a tabbed window on the bottom. From there if I login to server 'B' I want to have that window title display servername from server 'B' instead of server 'A'. Is there a way to do such a task in screens? And lastly I wanted to know if its possible to make that window title line which is always shows up on the bottom to show up on the top?

I am using Solaris 8 with screen version 4.

You can use hardstatus. My .screenrc looks like this for example:
Not really sure if this is exactly what you need, because you will need to have a similar .screenrc in every PC and you will have to launch screen in every PC you login, resulting to nested screens.

What I am looking for is this, when you ssh into server_A and launch screens from server_A I will get a tabbed window on the bottom. I want that tab to say server_A. Then if from server_A inside screens i will ssh into server_B. I now want the tabbed window to show server_B instead of server_A. Afterwards when i exit out of server_B and back to server_A. I now want tabbed window to show server_A all this to be done dynamically without manual intervention. Can that be done? I am using bash shell.

If you open a screen session on each PC you're logging in, it will work as I described. But if you want to launch screen only once, I don't think it can be done in screen. But I guess you can change the bash prompt to something like this:
to show the hostname. You'll need to change that on every PC you're logging in, you can put that line in your ~/.bashrc

Thanks for the reply but I was really looking to launch screens on server_A only and then from there log into many other servers and wanted to see their hostnames in the window titles.

Sorry, but I don't think that's possible.

Actually I think I found a way to do it. This is what I did and it worked. Inside your .bashrc file where you have your settings for PS1 you simply place below string at the very end of your PS1 variable:

'\[\033k\033\\\]'

example:
PS1="\u@\h\$"'\[\033k\033\\\]'
export PS1

Then in your .screenrc file you place this entry:

shelltitle "$ |bash"

Lastly, go back into your .bashrc file and create an alias for the server you are going to ssh into like this:

alias server_B='ssh -q server_B'

When you run screens from server_A and you type at your prompt "server_B" to ssh into that server you will see how your tab changes to server_B. When you exit out it will change back to "bash" title. This is by far the best easiest way i found how to tweak my .screenrc and .bashrc to allow myself to see tabs with hostname of the machine I'm in.

I got this hint from this website.

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Screen

I hope this helps.