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The biggest problem with screen is that it breaks ordinary virtual terminal scrollback, which is something that I can live with, but…
by thingie 17y ago
The biggest problem with screen is that it breaks ordinary virtual terminal scrollback, which is something that I can live with, but…
- derwiki 17y ago"Ctrl-a [" will put you enter the copy buffer mode and let you scroll up
- thingie 17y agoSure, but that's only a poor substitute. I can't just press shift + pg [up,down] or drag scrollbar in the terminal emulator or use mouse wheel.
- terminus 17y agoYeah I know, Shift+PG[up, down] not being usable is kinda a bummer but as a bonus you can use / to search the scrollback buffer plus all the vi movement keys are available.
- greyboy 17y agoDoes this not work for you? From http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.... Q: My xterm scrollbar does not work with screen. A: The problem is that xterm will not allow scrolling if the alternate text buffer is selected. The standard definitions of the termcap initialize capabilities ti and te switch to and from the alternate text buffer. (The scrollbar also does not work when you start e.g. 'vi'). You can tell screen not to use these initialisations by adding the line termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@ to your ~/.screenrc file.
- thingie 17y agoNo, it becomes chaotic and unusable when I have more screen windows and switch among them :-) I would not complain, if I knew such an easy way to make it work, really. :-)