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Re: Console title
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 03:43:46PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote:
>>
>> This makes the set title go after the current title, instead of
>> replacing it. You need to enable hardstatus support in termcap to be
>> able to notice the difference. In particular the entries 'hs', 'fs',
>> 'ts' and 'ds' are needed. See 'man screen'.
>
> You have offered no justification for this change. Obviously we
> could have appended the title after the existing title if we wanted
> to.
>
> What's the rationale here?
Ah, right, sorry.. If the title is removed by screen ('ds' termcap entry),
then the console title is empty. I want the old one to reappear. Placing the
title after the current one is one way of achieving that.
Micha.