(cc-ing devel. Original post to users at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2010-03/msg00019.html)
* Sadrul Habib Chowdhury had this to say on [29 Mar 2010, 12:20:09 -0400]: > * Artyom V. Gora had this to say on [29 Mar 2010, 18:26:38 +0300]: > > On 29/03/2010-14:42:03, Artyom V. Gora wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Hi Sadrul, > > > One additional question regarding this feature. Every time I doing > > > `screen -S <session-name> -Q title` the title appears in message > > > line on the bottom of the window. Is there any way to restrict > > > such kind of verbosity? It just a bit annoying if I doing > > > something in console and my bots execute that query quite often. > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > Artjom > > > > Hi again, > > As a follow up I also noticed that this message suspends any other > > output to stdout inside screen. That is while window's title is > > displayed in message line we cannot see any output of foreground > > programs we are running. To reproduce just run in screen any program > > which prints something to terminal (I was running ping) and run > > `screen -S <session-name> -Q title` in another console. Than keep an > > eye on your screen program's output. Or even easier, run `screen -S > > <session-name> -Q title` inside screen and you'll see that command > > prompt becomes unavailable until window's title still displayed in > > message line. > > Is it desired behaviour or something we need to fix in feature releases? > > There are two issues here: > > * The 'query commands' are not quiet. There is a plan to allow commands > to be quiet when '@' (or '-') flags are prepended to the command > names. Once that is functional, you can simply use '@title' command > instead of 'title'. It's not complete yet, though, and it requires > non-trivial work. (Also, it looks like '-' is not a good prefix to be > used with remote commands. Perhaps I will change it to use '%' > instead.) Actually, I have committed the changes required for this [1]. So now, you can prefix commands with '@' (e.g. '-Q @title') and they will be very quiet! If you can pull the latest version from git and try it out, that'd be great! (bug-reports are welcome!) [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=b24b0bc5a3e973c5fc798a7e77c7e13510fa8990 Sadrul
