Re: Status line for text mode console

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:30:15 +0100, Polytropon <freebsd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:02 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sounds like something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen.

Much too complicated. :-) I'm using screen on a daily basis to manage
multiple SSH sessions (very comfortable tool), but for something that
should run locally (a local terminal session) it doesn't seem to be
the right tool.

That's right, but screen(1) is pretty easy to configure this way. You
just have to add a `.screenrc' file with:

caption always "%{= bf}%5n %t (%H) %l%=%Y-%m-%d %c:%s "

This should produce a colored, blue 'hardstatus' line near the bottom of
the screen window, that displays something like this:

,-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| bash$
|
|
| 0 shell (kobe) 0.44 0.52 0.58 2008-10-31 6:14:00
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------

FWIW, I regularly use screen(1) in console sessions too, because ssh
sessions to `other' OS types work much better with a terminal type of
`screen'. Some Linux and Solaris systems do funny things when the
environment includes `TERM=cons25' :(

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