Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux (<a href="http://tmux.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://tmux.sourceforge.net/</a>). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't.<p>EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf (<a href="http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2</a>) and my screenrc (<a href="http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5</a>). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never really understood screen. Maybe that's just me.