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The number one request I get from folks around screen is how to have more than 40 screens in a single screen session. It is a hard coded limit. (MAXWIN 40) Many people recompile it to have more, but I don't want to maintain yet another internal build of a package.

Screen is still awesome and I have taught many folks to use it.

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Current default is 100. You can also use maxwin command (for example 'maxwin 200', up to 2048) in your screenrc file to define other value, no need to recompile. However do note that you can't change it in already started screen.

This limit must be due to the older versions we have in CentOS 6. screen-4.0.3-19.el6.x86_64