title_examples [GNU screen]

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Each screen window has a title. The title is visible in the window display (from the windows command or C-a w) and you can use titles as well as numbers to specify windows for many screen commands.

You can set the default title for your windows with the shelltitle command in your .screenrc. That may be overridden by the -t option of the screen command, the title-string escape sequence (<esc>k<new-title><esc>\), and the title command (bound to C-a A).

A common desire is to name one's windows after the programs running in them. A window sitting at a shell prompt might be named “bash”, while one running pine from a shell would be named “pine”.