Re: Screen and scrolling

[Robin Lee Powell]

That's completely different; that's scrolling through screen's
internal buffer, not the terminal's buffer.

I find it extremely useful because I can copy and paste without
reaching for the mouse, but that's just me.  (Also I've moved to
tmux, largely because of better support for that system.)

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11:33PM -0700, david kerns wrote:
> I'm a very casual screen user. To scroll in a modern terminal emulator
> while running screen you have to hit <ctrl>-a <esc>   (then <esc> to get
> out of scroll mode) ... to me it's a major annoyance, and probably why I'm
> a casual user. I suspect xterm is just too old to support whatever screen
> is doing.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:29 AM Luveh Keraph <1.41421@gmail.com> 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?
> >
> >
> >