Comment 13 for bug 338722

Aha! You're absolutely right, Dominic...

  "However, as you can see, the way it works is to send all hardstatus information to the title. If you set
  'alwayslastline' for the hardstatus, it is never sent to the terminal so the title remains as screen.

  What we probably need is a patch for screen to allow two hardstatus lines to be set, one that is only ever
  sent to the terminal (that can be used as window title) and one that is only sent to screen (for when
  alwayslastline is set). That way screen-profiles can still continue to use the hardstatus for displaying status
  information etc. but we can still set the window title"

So I could get the window title to track the current directory, but it would only do so when I disabled the 'hardstatus alwayslastline' bit. Of course, that line is a huge chunk of byobu's value. I agree with you, that we need to patch screen, such that it would allow for a separation of the window title from the hardstatus.

I'm marking confirmed against screen, and invalid against byobu. If I find some time, I'll try to work on the screen patch.

Cheers,
:-Dustin