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A favorite .screenrc setting

I thought I’d share my current and favorite, .screenrc settings:

vbell off
autodetach on
defscrollback 10000
startup_message off
pow_detach_msg "Screen session of \$LOGNAME \$:cr:\$:nl:ended."
caption always "%{= gk}%-Lw%{= rW}%50> %n%f* %t %{-}%+Lw%< %= %{= Gk} %H %{= rW} %l %{= Gk} %0c:%s %d/%m %{-}"
shell -$SHELL

Looking like:

From the bottom left to right:

  • Screen name ‘tabs’: %-Lw%{= rW}%50> %n%f* %t %{-}%+Lw%<
  • Server name: %H
  • Server load: %l
  • Date & time: %0c:%s %d/%m

I put this togehter a few years ago, back in London, when working at multimap, but I cannot remember where I sourced it from. So, I’m putting it here for posterity.

What is your favourite .screenrc configuration?

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 am by Henrik Melin and is filed under note. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Comments to “A favorite .screenrc setting”

  1. Dev Null Says:
    October 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Hey, I was googling for a screenrc like this and I came across one you may have sourced this from:
    http://www.tenox.tc/out/

  2. someone Says:
    December 17th, 2009 at 3:37 am

    thanks, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it :)

  3. elnio Says:
    August 14th, 2010 at 12:50 am

    Hi guys..i dont know if anyone watched this thread anymore but i have a tricky question for you..is it possible to change the background and text color and not use the default terminal profile..so you can have different colors in screen mode and in non screen..hope you response..take care

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