On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has a
>status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with screen,
>too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much effort to learn and it
>just seemed flashy and pointless. I realised how mistaken I was within a couple
>of hours of using tmux. It has absolutely changed the way I use terminal
>multiplexers, and so I spent several hours the next day configuring mine and
>getting the colours and stuff perfect.
I have not used tmux but I agree completely, I hate to use screen
without the status bar. I'm using one I copied from here or the forums
or the gentoo wiki or someplace out there in WWW land. (Thanks to the
person who made it, whoever you are)
Add this to your .screenrc:
caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"
