diff --git a/screenrc b/screenrc
index ea7d754..efe232d 100644
--- a/screenrc
+++ b/screenrc
@@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ bell_msg ""
 # size of the scrollback buffer for the current windows to num lines.
 # the default scrollback is 100 lines
 scrollback 8192
+
+# define some sort of simple status line
+# display names of unfocused windows and the hostname
+hardstatus off
+caption always "%{gk}%-w%{} %n:%f*%{-} %+w %{kg}%=%H "