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sipefree on Feb 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

I really don't see how these are connected. You could easily have one screen window open and type a command into it absent mindedly without realizing it's not your laptop's shell.

tres on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

If you're not using captions w/ screen, then you're not using screen.

Try adding to ~/.screenrc

caption always "| %L=%-Lw%45>%{+b by}%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%-0<"

tres on Feb 27, 2011 | [–]

oh, and to change the name to the current machine, ctrl + a shift + a then name to whatever system you're connected to.

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