Ben,
A solution to the scenario you described to Steve:
Make yourself some tiny disk icons (small square boxs) with dinky little
numbers or letters on them. (like the number 32 for instance) Place them
along the top of your workbench screen, just under the title bar. Then
snapshot them in place. Have your CLI open just under the icons, and you'll
always be able to see them.
I do it this way and have icons that are so short they don't even take up a
whole char row. (can almost make out the numbers on them):) Works great!
Especially in interlace where you can afford to give up a little room at the
top of the screen.
Dale