I use screen for most of the work (terminals, emacs -nw, rtorrent, mail(emacs-nw+wanderlust) etc), along with stumpwm and conkeror.

Here are some configs, may be someone will find it useful

http://pastebin.com/f15ac6dfe

http://pastebin.com/m7658c531

And a screenshot: http://img136.yfrog.com/i/screenshotmz.png/