There is indeed a lot to be told about the .screenrc
That ll be the focus of the last article, though most of the screenrc hackery is slightly obsolete since ubuntu created their assortment of screenrc configs. They’re impressive, really!

A really nice screen hack are these commands for your .screenrc:

term xterm
hardstatus string “%n – %h”
windowlist string “%3n %h%=%f”

combine this with the classic ‘xterm window title’ hack in bash to set the ‘hardstatus’ to user@host:dir.

This way you will always find the right screen window back in the window list (C-a “) and see where you are in your terminal’s window title!

Jos