Re: terminal clear/refresh after detach

[Ben Love]

* Lonni J Friedman wrote on [2011-09-12 12:17:08 -0700]:
> Greetings,
> I recently upgraded from Fedora14 to Fedora15.  As part of the
> upgrade, I moved from screen-4.0.3 to screen-4.1.0, and inherited an
> annoying behavior.  Prior to the upgrade, whenever I detached from a
> screen session, everything that was present on my terminal prior to
> attaching to a screen session was restored.  Since the upgrade,
> whenever I detach, my terminal is automatically cleared, thereby
> losing all content that was present.
> 
> I've googled and looked through the screen man page, but I can't find
> any mention of this behavior (or a means of preventing it).  Is this
> expected behavior, or a bug?

I think you are intersted in the altscreen option.  I believe it does
what you want.

Alternatively, you could look into hacks as described here:

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/snipplets/screen_saverestore

using tput smcup and tput rmcup to save and restore the screen manually,
though this is probably not what you're looking for.

Ben

> 
> thanks!
> 
> 

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Ben Love
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