Re: How to set "screen" to show in more than one screen length

2011-07-23 Thread Chris
Ramons suggestion is good but I think you may want all screen activity in your terminal applications buffer. What OS & terminal emulator are you using? For Ubuntu / xterm you must edit /etc/screenrc: # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo

Re: How to set "screen" to show in more than one screen length

2011-07-23 Thread Ramon J. Gonzalez
Yunfei, What you want to use is copy/paste mode. You can enter it by pressing C^a esc. Then you can scroll saround with tthe arrow keys and use search like in vi. This is all detailed in the man page. RJ -Sent from mobile On Jul 23, 2011 9:37 AM, "Yunfei Li" wrote: __

How to set "screen" to show in more than one screen length

2011-07-23 Thread Yunfei Li
Hi, I am a newer to GNU screen. It is a great software but when I use it, it only shows in one screen length, I mean if I scroll up it will be the information before I connect to "screen". It will come to a problem when I am within "screen" and have a long printing on screen, since the "one screen