$TERM was the answer. I had to change it from xterm to xterm-256color. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghates...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm seeing something weird in GNU screen. When I use screen on my own > Ubuntu 10.04 box, as I enter a bunch of lines in the shell, I can see > my gnome-terminal window gathering my scrollback, and I can then > scroll back up in gnome-terminal with e.g. mouse wheel, shift-pgup, > etc. > But on my friend's machine with the same Ubuntu 10.04 installed, > screen for some reason doesn't do this. It never "leaves behind" more > than the current screen in gnome-terminal, so the scrollbar never > changes size, and trying to scroll with the mouse wheel just gets > interpreted as the Up key, causing the shell to go to the previous > line. > We pored over our .screenrc and .inputrc (which barely have any > config), but couldn't find what was causing this. It doesn't seem to > matter anyway since if I create an entirely new user on my own box, > and an entirely new user on his box, both of which have no custom > .inputrc/.screenrc, we still see this discrepancy. It's all version > 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06. Any help? Thanks in advance. > -- > Yang Zhang > http://yz.mit.edu/ >
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