Frank Blendinger, Wed 2009-03-11 01:53 CET: > Hi, > > 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. HTH Stony _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
