SOURCES: screen-status-bar.patch (NEW) - adds a very handy status ...

[Marek Guevara Braun]

Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

>>++# status bar with hostname, term names and clock/calendar info
>>++caption always "${HOSTNAME} %{-b}%{= wb}%-Lw%{= wr}%50>%{+b}%n%f %t%{=
>>wb}%{-b}%+Lw%{= wr}%-017= %c %Y-%m-%d"
> 
> not sure aboout making it default, 

I have added the (without) bcond 'status_bar' - this should work with
a custom settings in .screenrc - I have tested and the effective entry
is the last one (ie. first we process /etc/screenrc then ~/.screenrc)
so legacy user preferences should be safe.

The proposed caption should work, and be readable on black-on-white
and white-on-black terminals - so it should be safe to use it in
different environments.

I will modify a patch and add o comment how to disable status bar
(caption splitonly works for me)

> but here's few status bars from my private collection :)

I would like to add these to the /etc/screenrc as comments.

> # colourized windowlist chooser
> windowlist string "%{+ g}%02n%{-}: %{+ y}%t%{-}%f [%h]"

BTW what windowlist does? I haven't seen any effect of this settings.

Regards,
Marek