Comment 16 for bug 338722

not for nothin, but I was playing around today with byobu 3.27 from the PPA and found that setting "hardstatus alwayslastline" affects this.

1. Set my .screenrc as suggested to mimic Redhat's screen config
2. Tested and saw that it works
3. Set "hardstatus alwayslastline" and test, watch it not work

A interesting side-effect, setting up .screenrc as suggested (or moving this into the byobu profile) is if you remove "hardstatus alwayslastline" from the byobu common profile (/usr/share/byobu/profiles/common" the hardstatus is displayed in gnome-terminal titlebar. See attached screenshot.

So I have it set up this way:
.screenrc
termcapinfo xterm 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'

/usr/share/byobu/profiles/common
... 1, 2, skip a few ...
#hardstatus alwayslastline
... 3, 4, skip some more ...
hardstatus string '[%n%?: %t%?] (REST OF ORIGINAL HARDSTATUS)'