Re: Possible to put some kind of if then test in screenrc?

[David Woodfall]

> On 14.11.17,17:59, David Woodfall wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
> >
> > > This should be possible if you write a backtick that prints only if CPU >
> > > 90; then you could combine that with %? :
> > >
> > > %?%1`%{.R.}%?%
> > >
> > > to conditionally change the color
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:41 AM, David Woodfall <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a hardstatus backtick command that prints CPU %. I would like
> > > > to change the hardtstatus text colour to bright red if it goes over
> > > > 90%.
> > > >
> > > > Is this possible?
> > > >
> > > > I tried first using bash colour escape codes, and then normal screen
> > > > colour codes like %{b .r.}, but it prints the codes verbatim rather than
> > > > as colour codes.
> > > >
>
> The last post in this thread might give some suggestion to resolve this
> with a script:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16429/how-can-you-change-the-gnu-screen-status-line-based-on-hostname
>
> Jostein

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Dave