Screen version 4.06.02 (GNU) 23-Oct-17 After setting up Dynamic Window Titles <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Dynamic-Titles.html#Dynamic-Titles>, it is not possible to change the title of a window. The new name is overwritten after the next prompt writes the null title escape sequence.
For example, with this in the .screenrc (or equivalent environment settings): shelltitle '$ |bash' And using bash with this in .bashrc (or equivalent environment settings): PS1= '$ ' PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033k\033\134"' Then we get dynamic window titles in screen that shows the current running process or "bash". However, if I want to rename the current window to "production" with (C-a A) or `title` then the window gets the title "production" but the next prompt erases it and restores it to bash. I could change PROMPT_COMMAND to stop outputting the escape but what I really want is to set the new title to `$ |production:` so that the title is production:<cmd>. Removing the escape sequence doesn't help here and with it the title is overridden. This seems like a bug. I had originally asked about this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78866987/how-to-manually-set-a-windows-title-in-gnu-screen-while-using-dynamic-window-ti
