Re: Screen and scrolling

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:29:08AM -0600, Luveh Keraph wrote:
> While this is probably not screen's doing, maybe somebody in this forum has
> the necessary expertise to suggest courses of action that I am not aware of.
> 
> I am running Slackware 15.0.  If I invoke xterm I have the capability of
> scrolling up and down in the terminal emulator by using Shfit + PageUp and
> Shift + PageDown. If I invoke screen within this emulator I retain that
> capability in the resulting shell.
> 
> If invoke xfce4-terminal (the Xfce terminal emulator) I have the same
> scrolling capability. However, after invoking screen from this terminal
> emulator the scrolling capability is not present any more in the resulting
> shell.
> 
> When brought to their attention, the Xfce people did some hand-waving while
> concluding, in essence, that this is expected behavior for all terminal
> emulators - which is obviously not right. I really think this is an issue
> (a feature?) with xfce4-terminal, but I wonder whether somebody with a deep
> knowledge of the ins and outs of screen might suggest screen tweaks to get
> around it?

First thing to check is the TERM variable that is in place *before*
screen launches in both cases; make them match and see if that fixes
it.