Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Luveh Keraph
Much to my embarrassment, I have just noticed that even when using xfce4-terminal does the Shift + PageU or Shift + PageDown work. It's something to do with the contents of /etc/screenrc and $HOME/.screenrc - something in them screws up xfce4-terminal but not xterm. I don't know exactly what it is

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Hauke Laging
Am 24.07.22 um 19:29 schrieb Luveh Keraph: I wonder whether somebody with a deep knowledge of the ins and outs of screen might suggest screen tweaks to get around it? I cannot explain the technical details but putting termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@ termcapinfo xterm-color ti@:te@ termcapinfo xter

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread david kerns
I use the mouse for copy/paste... I hate it when I have to take my hand off the mouse! On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:14 PM Robin Lee Powell wrote: > That's completely different; that's scrolling through screen's > internal buffer, not the terminal's buffer. > > I find it extremely useful because I

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
That's completely different; that's scrolling through screen's internal buffer, not the terminal's buffer. I find it extremely useful because I can copy and paste without reaching for the mouse, but that's just me. (Also I've moved to tmux, largely because of better support for that system.) On

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:29:08AM -0600, Luveh Keraph wrote: > While this is probably not screen's doing, maybe somebody in this forum has > the necessary expertise to suggest courses of action that I am not aware of. > > I am running Slackware 15.0. If I invoke xterm I have the capability of

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread david kerns
I'm a very casual screen user. To scroll in a modern terminal emulator while running screen you have to hit -a(then to get out of scroll mode) ... to me it's a major annoyance, and probably why I'm a casual user. I suspect xterm is just too old to support whatever screen is doing. On Sun, Jul

Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Luveh Keraph
While this is probably not screen's doing, maybe somebody in this forum has the necessary expertise to suggest courses of action that I am not aware of. I am running Slackware 15.0. If I invoke xterm I have the capability of scrolling up and down in the terminal emulator by using Shfit + PageUp a