Screen has a hell of a learning curve.<p>If you're a beginner to screen, consider byobu. It's a user-friendly wrapper around screen with intelligent defaults and a discoverable menu-based configuration system. It's also very pretty :)<p>Screenshots: <a href="http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/11/enhancing-terminals-with-byobu-on.html" rel="nofollow">http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/11/enhancing-terminals-with...</a><p>Project: <a href="https://launchpad.net/byobu" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/byobu</a>