Bug 28233 – Emerge doesn't update the window title of a screen session

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description mike 2003-09-08 19:11:30 UTC]

Emerge only changes the window title for xterm, Eterm, aterm, and rxvt.  Does
not change the window title of a screen window, or the shell containing that
screen session.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a screen session
2. Emerge any ebuild
3. View window titles using C-a w 

Actual Results:  
The title of the current screen window is not updated by the emerge.

Expected Results:  
Screen window name should provide similar information as is found in the title
bar of xterm & Eterm sessions.

Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-xfs-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-xfs-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm
berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk guile mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam
libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr X dvd qt
-java -gnome kde cups"

[Comment 1 mike 2003-09-08 19:15:52 UTC]

Created attachment 17304 [details, diff]
Modifies output.py to change screen session window name

The output of xtermTitle() is longer than allowed to be in a screen window
title.	The patch simple cuts off the output after the maximum number of
characters.  (/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/output.py)

[Comment 2 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-09-08 19:23:55 UTC]

assigned to wrong product.  fixing.

[Comment 3 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-02 12:40:57 UTC]

The patch doesn't work for me on my screen session.
Then, I changed as following and it works.
-    if myt in ["xterm","Eterm","aterm","rxvt"]:
+    if myt in ["xterm","Eterm","aterm","rxvt","screen"]:

But I'm not sure if it's good or bad because I'm not familiar with screen.
What do you think?

[Comment 4 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-12-08 07:11:55 UTC]

fixed in cvs

[Comment 5 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-12-08 07:12:22 UTC]

*** Bug 35334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-02-08 17:55:28 UTC]

supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.