Re: [screen-devel] issue in screen window messed up when switching between terminals

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

On Thu, 9 May 2019 18:47:50 +0530
muralidhara mk <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is Muralidhara from Bangalore. I have a bug in my screen executable:
> 
> Platfrom:
> -------------------
> OS :  Linux
> SHELL : tcsh
> screen version:  Screen version 4.01.00devel (GNU) 2-May-06
> 
> BUG which I observed:
> ----------------------------------
> Let's say I am using 4 terminals in my screen session,
> when switching between windows or terminals in screen and running commands,
> the scrollback for each window is messed up. Instead of only being the
> scrollback for the current window, it combines all the scrollback. So if I
> go from vim to another window and scroll up, I'll see my vim window or
> another terminal data of screen window when scrollback.
> The above I am observing when I scrollback or scrollup the screen terminal
> using mouse .
> 
> 
> Could you please provide the appropriate .screenrc commands to resolve this
> issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Murali

This is due to nature of how screen works, what you are looking at is
parent terminal scrollback, instead of screen scrollback. To access
screen scrollback you can use C-a [ and then scroll with arrow keys.

Amadeusz