One of the first thing I install on a new host is GNU-screen. The next thing right after that is to Google for the lines I need to edit in my ~/.screenrc
to activate the hard-status line so I will see the current active shell sessions.
However since I already have root on my host, I figured it might be faster to edit the default /etc/screenrc
and I should be able to uncomment a line to have my hard-status line working.
Especially looking at this part, it seems trivial:
# An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom listing the
# windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue. (This is only
# enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)
#
#hardstatus lastline "%-Lw%{= BW}%50>%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%<"
However no matter what permutation of commenting and uncommenting, and switching off
settings to on
and vice versa, I wasn't able to see any hard status line.
So is there a simple modification to the default /etc/screenrc
that comes with part of the standard Ubuntu package to have a hard-status line that shows the current shells and highlights the current one?