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Date: | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:10:57 -0500 |
From: | Eric Pruitt <eric DOT pruitt AT gmail DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Show GNU screen captions inside of mintty |
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:58:41PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/2/2011 9:30 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > > When using mintty with GNU screen, all status messages (captions) are shown in > > the title bar instead of the interior of the terminal. I originally found this > > feature quite nifty, but now that I use an always-on caption for screen, it > > means that I end up losing visibility of the window title and hardstatus. > > What needs to be modified in order to make captions show up in the interior > > of mintty? > > Here's what I use: > > hardstatus string "screen %n (%t)%? [%h]%?" > caption always '%{yb} %H %{k}|%L=%= %{w}%?%-Lw%45L>%?%{=b bR}[%{W}%n%f > %t%?(%u)%?%{=b bR}]%{= bw}%?%+Lw%?%?%=%-30= %{k}|%{Y}%l%{k}|%{=b C} > %m/%d %c %{W}' > That does what I want, albeit not with the formatting options I'll. Could you explain how and why that works? I like that the status messages remain in the title bar, too. Now I just need to figure out how to do the same thing on xterm -- keep the caption as the last line but status messages in the title bar. Any help you could offer on that would be great as well. Thanks, Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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