When screen is started, it reads its configuration parameters from /etc/screenrc and ~/.screenrc if the file is present.
The /etc/screenrc file:
# $Id: screenrc,v 1.15 2003/10/08 11:39:03 zal Exp $ # # /etc/screenrc # # This is the system wide screenrc. # # You can use this file to change the default behavior of screen system wide # or copy it to ~/.screenrc and use it as a starting point for your own # settings. # # Commands in this file are used to set options, bind screen functions to # keys, redefine terminal capabilities, and to automatically establish one or # more windows at the beginning of your screen session. # # This is not a comprehensive list of options, look at the screen manual for # details on everything that you can put in this file. # # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # SCREEN SETTINGS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #startup_message off #nethack on #defflow on # will force screen to process ^S/^Q deflogin on #autodetach off # turn visual bell on vbell on vbell_msg " Wuff ---- Wuff!! " # define a bigger scrollback, default is 100 lines defscrollback 1024 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # SCREEN KEYBINDINGS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Remove some stupid / dangerous key bindings bind ^k #bind L bind ^\ # Make them better bind \\ quit bind K kill bind I login on bind O login off bind } history # An example of a "screen scraper" which will launch urlview on the current # screen window # #bind ^B eval "hardcopy_append off" "hardcopy -h $HOME/.screen-urlview" "screen urlview $HOME/.screen-urlview" # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # TERMINAL SETTINGS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # The vt100 description does not mention "dl". *sigh* termcapinfo vt100 dl=5\E[M # turn sending of screen messages to hardstatus off hardstatus off # Set the hardstatus prop on gui terms to set the titlebar/icon title termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kterm*|Eterm* hs:ts=\E]0;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;\007 # use this for the hard status string hardstatus string "%h%? users: %u%?" # 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%<" # set these terminals up to be 'optimal' instead of vt100 termcapinfo xterm*|linux*|rxvt*|Eterm* OP # Change the xterm initialization string from is2=\E[!p\E[?3;4l\E[4l\E> # (This fixes the "Aborted because of window size change" konsole symptoms found # in bug #134198) termcapinfo xterm 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l' # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer # (which has scrollback), not the alternate screen buffer. # #termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@ # Enable non-blocking mode to better cope with flaky ssh connections. defnonblock 5 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # STARTUP SCREENS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Example of automatically running some programs in windows on screen startup. # # The following will open top in the first window, an ssh session to monkey # in the next window, and then open mutt and tail in windows 8 and 9 # respectively. # # screen top # screen -t monkey ssh monkey # screen -t mail 8 mutt # screen -t daemon 9 tail -f /var/log/daemon.log
This adds a customized status line and few additional options:
# Turn off the welcome message. startup_message off # Disable visual bell. vbell off # Set scrollback buffer to 10000. defscrollback 10000 # Customize the status line. hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'