This used to be the default behavior that doing C-a-Esc there would be a message at the bottom saying you have entered copy mode and go away once you left it.
On this new install (archlinux) I get no information at the bottom.
Also when I want to do some commands such as kill screen I have to use Shift before yet others I don't. For example C-a-d works. However C-a-Shift-k is required to kill the screen.
Perhaps that is just to kill the screen and a change in an update to prevent users for accidentally killing a screen they don't want to. Not really a problem if only that one.
The copy thing is the main thing as I have no idea when I am or am not in copy mode except by moving the cursor around with keys.
It also used to tell when something was copied to the clipboard register but again no output indicating that.
I found a post on stackexchange about status bar set to always be on. I thought this sounded like what I was after but it wasn't. The code is
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but that just gives a bar at the bottom telling the screen name. Not what I am after.
I want copy mode status shown like how it used to be on most other machines I have installed screen on. Not sure what changed. I imagine it is just some thing else I have to set in the rc file but not sure what.