Hi. On Wed 2009-03-11 12:29, Alexander Steinert <sput...@termo.net> 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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