For the longest time, this is always one of the first things I do when I set up an account on a Unix box on which I will ever be running screen.
I add this to my .bashrc file:
# Change the prompt if screen is active
if [ "$WINDOW" != "" ]; then
PS1="S:$WINDOW \u@\h \W> "
else
PS1="\t \u@\h \W> "
fi
That gives you a nice prompt like this:
S:9 dave@nexus dave>
when you are in screen, where the S:9 says that this is screen window #9. Man does this make life simpler some days.
Oh… now THIS is handy. Thanks, Dave!
I have some weird script that puts the screen # in my window title, I prefer it there to in my prompt – but yes, very handy tip 😀
Suhweet. I didn’t have the screen part in my bashrc, and I’ve been using screen quite a bit recently transcoding stuff on my MythTV box. Excellent.
Nice, but it doesn’t seem to be updated if you swap window orders, e.g.:
:number 3
I go for having the screen number in the window title, using something like this in my screenrc:
termcapinfo xterm ‘hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=07:ds=\E]2;screen07’
hardstatus string “[screen %n%?: %t%?] %h”