On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Ben Love <blove+scr...@kylimar.com> wrote: > * Lonni J Friedman wrote on [2011-09-13 12:36:43 -0700]: >> 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 . > > I think this means your termcap/terminfo settings have changed. First, > make sure you aren't using something weird in $TERM (in the shell that > launches screen, not the shell within screen, which should simply have > TERM=screen). Then, try reading man terminfo and man termcap. > Unfortunately, I've not messed with either enough to know where to > actually look. And generally, I think it's a bad idea to try > customizing that stuff as I would expect most distributions to already > have sane values for all sane TERM entries. > > For comparison, my $TERM prior to launching screen is rxvt-unicode.
$TERM hasn't changed. It was rxvt before the OS upgrade, and remains rxvt. >> > Alternatively, you could look into hacks as described here: >> > >> > http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/snipplets/screen_saverestore >> > >> > using tput smcup and tput rmcup to save and restore the screen manually, >> > though this is probably not what you're looking for. >> >> If there was some way to get screen to invoke them automatically, then >> that would likely serve as a good workaround. However, I can't figure >> out any way to accomplish that. > > If you're talking about having this run when you're attaching/detaching, > then I think a simple shell script around screen would be fine: > > #!/bin/bash > tput smcup > screen "$@" > tput rmcup > > If you're talking about how to do this from within shells that are > started by screen, I would probably put something in .bashrc that tests > for TERM=screen to detemine that it is executing within screen, and make > the tput smcup and tput rmcup entries within there. There's probably > another way to do this that is more elegant, but all my hacks are in > .bashrc anyway. I'm talking about doing this outside the screen session. I tried your simple shell script, and it didn't help. The terminal still gets cleared when I detach. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
