Ijust found out about .screenrc which is a file that lest you pop a status bar at the bottom of your screen sessions. There are loads of different ones floating around the internet but my fav at the moment is this

# C-a :source .screenrc

 

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@

startup_message off

vbell off

autodetach on

altscreen on

shelltitle "$ |bash"

defscrollback 10000

defutf8 on

nonblock on

 

hardstatus alwayslastline

hardstatus string '%{= kw}[ %{= kb}%H%{= kw} ][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= ][ %{b}%l%{w} ]%{w}[%{g} %d/%m/%y%{G} %C %A %{w}]%{w}'

bind 'q' quit

If you want to know what all the tokens mean then Google is your friend but for starters %{g} makes the text green

Have fun finding your perfect .screenrc

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