As we all know Screen is an excellent program. Here is how my ~/.screenrc looks like
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 1   vbell off
 2   defscrollback 10000
 3   hardstatus on
 4   hardstatus alwayslastline "%{wk}%-w%{kw}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{Gk} %H %{Wk} %d-%M-%Y %C:%s %a %D "
 5   termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
 6   startup_message off
 7   msgwait 1
 8   altscreen on
 9   escape ``
10   bind c screen 1
11   bind ^c screen 1
12   bind 0 select 10
13   screen 1

\\ And this is how it looks in action
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1. blockquote (the key right above Tab key) will be the command character
2. As you see in the image, the screen numbers will begin with 1
3. The bottom bar shows list of open terminals, machine name, date, time, weekday
4. `+c will create a new terminal
5. `+1,`+2,`+3,… will switch to the respective terminals

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