On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Martijn van Buul wrote:

>> I mean something like twirling baton -/|\-/|\... somewhere,
>> indicating that system is alive (and possibly, roughly, how much
>> loaded it is), or time display along with standard
>> "user@machine:path$", or even kind of animated ASCII art (which could
>> be a hint as for possible solution - at least for terminals capable
>> of such feature).
>
> I'm not sure this is what you want to hear, but 'screen' can do  
> something
> like that in the status line. Adding the following line to your
> .screenrc should do the trick

Probably not the 'bling' the original user was looking for but  
"^T" (stty status ^T) does the right thing...