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"motd+shell" appears as first screen window title

Bug #369397 reported by lebedov
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byobu
Fix Released
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Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

When I start screen with screen-profiles 1.52 installed, the title of the status line entry for the first window is set to "motd+shell". Why would it not be set to /bin/bash (which is what my SHELL variable is set to)?

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Because if you just launch screen (and not screen with a particular program, a la "screen bash" or "screen top"), then we launch a binary called /usr/bin/motd+screen. This is a binary that screen-profiles provides. This ensures that the message-of-the-day gets printed, and the shell launched.

We previously used a -t "bash" on the screen line, however this causes a hang if users defined shelltitle.

You can rename this any one of a number of ways. You can set shelltitle. You can hit F8 and rename the window. I'm not inclined to spend much more time fighting with this.

Thanks for the report. Sorry.

:-Dustin

Changed in screen-profiles:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

On second thought, I think I know a trivial way around this.

:-Dustin

Changed in screen-profiles:
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Won't Fix → Triaged
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
Changed in screen-profiles:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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markb (mark-blakeney) wrote :

I confirm this bug in 1.52-0ubuntu1~ppa3. That name is so ridiculous I thought I had an error in my configuration and spent 10 mins looking for it before I decided it "must be intentional"?!

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markb (mark-blakeney) wrote :

Fix confirmed in 1.53-0ubuntu1~ppa3 on both my jaunty and intrepid boxes.

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lebedov (lebedov) wrote :

Thanks for fixing this so quickly!

By the way..I see that the fix is in the latest Debian diff file but not in the
screen-profiles_1.53.orig.tar.gz tarball. Shouldn't the 1.53 tarball contain the files corresponding to release 396?

Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
Changed in byobu:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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