Re: xterm scroll history instead of screen

[Adam Lazur]

Shawn McMahon (address@hidden) said:
> Ok, here's one I'm having trouble Googling, since "screen" is such a
> common word:
> 
> When I run screen on a system I'm accessing under gnome-terminal, if I
> set the TERM variable to xterm (the default when SSHing) or gnome, as
> soon as I run screen I lose my scrollbar.
> 
> If I set TERM to vt100 or vt220, I keep my scrollbar, but I have weird
> video crap going on that makes it various degrees of unusable.

See http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html and
look for Q: My xterm scrollbar does not work with screen.

FWIW, this is included and commented out in the /etc/screenrc on Debian
systems.

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Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey