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why is screen not showing the current running process name? (Mac OSX Terminal bash)

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I am running screen inside Mac OSX Terminal app (bash). Here is the screenrc (got it from here): As can be seen I do have the line to show the current process name as the title in screen: But inside screen I just see "what?" (the default) instead of the process-name. Which suggests that "$" is not …

Error Output

$ cat ~/.screenrc 
termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
startup_message off
defutf8 on
shelltitle "$ |what?" # make screen assign window titles automatically
h…

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Fix for: why is screen not showing the current running process name? (Mac OSX Terminal bash)

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What is your bash prompt set to (i.e. the PS1 variable)? Try the following in your or : and in your .screenrc: This is what I have and it works. Basically, screen needs a magic string to know how your prompt ends so it can pick up the command that's…

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