Screen Command - Screen No

[teotjunk]

Hi

I am using the screen command and usiing screen -a to create new screens but the screen number does not appear on the status bar.



teotjunk

[Cabhan]

By default, screen does nothing except let you create additional screens. It has no status bars or anything.

You can either try to figure out how to write a screenrc yourself (this is fairly complicated) or I would suggest using byobu, which creates a much nicer screen experience:
https://launchpad.net/byobu