On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ben Love <blove+scr...@kylimar.com> wrote: > * 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.
This option doesn't seem to have any impact regardless of whether I set it to off or on in /etc/screenrc . > > 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. If there was some way to get screen to invoke them automatically, then that would likely serve as a good workaround. However, I can't figure out any way to accomplish that. thanks. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
