So far when using screen I was always using very simple steps and using the simplest features. But given that PuTTY doesn’t feature tabs, it’s pretty cool what you can do with screen. You can either start one or multiple screen sessions with one or multiple windows and then have them running even across your SSH sessions. Now most people probably know that. However, Ubuntu lately introduced a nice supplement called screen-profiles in the 9.04 release and to be renamed to byobu for the next one. It provides some really nice information within each screen session (and window) that can make the work with screen so much more useful. Have a look here.
Now I found this by chance because I was showing screen to Friðrik on his newly installed Ubuntu 9.04. Since I personally use the LTS version or Debian, I hadn’t seen it before.
// Oliver