Well, I found some more information. I thought I might be able to fix the problem by fixing the term, but I don't think that's involved. Here's what I did.
I symlinked the "screen" terminfo files to /usr/share/terminfo/screen.xterm and screen.xterm-color, to no avail. Also tried /lib/terminfo and even symlinking them into /etc/terminfo. None of these options worked with a TERM of xterm-color. So, I tried using the -T option on screen to manually set the term to 'screen.xterm' or 'xterm' (instead of TERM=xterm, for example) and that didn't work either. My terminfo folders look like this: find /lib/terminfo/ /usr/share/terminfo/ | grep screen /lib/terminfo/s/screen /lib/terminfo/s/screen-bce /lib/terminfo/s/screen-s /lib/terminfo/s/screen-w /lib/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-color /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-256color-s /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-bce /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.teraterm /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-256color-bce /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-16color /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-new /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-s /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-16color-bce /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-w /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-xfree86 /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen2 /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-16color-bce-s /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.linux /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-r6 /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-256color /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-256color-bce-s /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen3 /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-16color-s /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-color I added a few symlinks as tests. Currently, it seems like this is a terminfo issue, but I can't fix it using any of the things I know about terminfo. Here's the working (TERM=xterm) dumped terminfo file: SC|screen.xterm|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\ :DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:bs:bt=\E[Z:\ :cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ct=\E[3g:\ :do=^J:nd=\E[C:pt:rc=\E8:rs=\Ec:sc=\E7:st=\EH:up=\EM:\ :le=^H:bl=^G:cr=^M:it#8:ho=\E[H:nw=\EE:ta=^I:is=\E)0:\ :li#66:co#275:am:xn:xv:LP:sr=\EM:al=\E[L:AL=\E[%dL:\ :cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:dl=\E[M:DL=\E[%dM:dc=\E[P:DC=\E[%dP:\ :im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:mi:IC=\E[%d@:ks=\E[?1h\E=:\ :ke=\E[?1l\E>:vi=\E[?25l:ve=\E[34h\E[?25h:vs=\E[34l:\ :ti=\E[?1049h:te=\E[?1049l:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[24m:so=\E[3m:\ :se=\E[23m:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:ms:\ :Co#8:pa#64:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:AX:\ :vb=\Eg:G0:as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:\ :ac=\140\140aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++,,hhII00:\ :po=\E[5i:pf=\E[4i:k0=\E[10~:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:\ :k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:\ :k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:F3=\EO2P:\ :F4=\EO2Q:F5=\EO2R:F6=\EO2S:F7=\E[15;2~:F8=\E[17;2~:\ :F9=\E[18;2~:FA=\E[19;2~:kb=:K2=\EOE:kB=\E[Z:\ :*4=\E[3;2~:*7=\E[1;2F:#2=\E[1;2H:#3=\E[2;2~:#4=\E[1;2D:\ :%c=\E[6;2~:%e=\E[5;2~:%i=\E[1;2C:kh=\E[1~:@1=\E[1~:\ :kH=\E[4~:@7=\E[4~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kI=\E[2~:kD=\E[3~:\ :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:km: Here's the non-working version : SC|screen.xterm-color|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\ :DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:bs:bt=\E[Z:\ :cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ct=\E[3g:\ :do=^J:nd=\E[C:pt:rc=\E8:rs=\Ec:sc=\E7:st=\EH:up=\EM:\ :le=^H:bl=^G:cr=^M:it#8:ho=\E[H:nw=\EE:ta=^I:is=\E)0:\ :li#66:co#275:am:xn:xv:LP:sr=\EM:al=\E[L:AL=\E[%dL:\ :cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:dl=\E[M:DL=\E[%dM:dc=\E[P:DC=\E[%dP:\ :im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:mi:IC=\E[%d@:ks=\E[?1h\E=:\ :ke=\E[?1l\E>:vi=\E[?25l:ve=\E[34h\E[?25h:vs=\E[34l:\ :ti=\E[?1049h:te=\E[?1049l:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[24m:so=\E[3m:\ :se=\E[23m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:ms:\ :Co#8:pa#64:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:AX:\ :as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:\ :ac=\140\140aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++,,hhII00:\ :k0=\E[10~:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:\ :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:\ :F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:F3=\E[25~:F4=\E[26~:F5=\E[28~:\ :F6=\E[29~:F7=\E[31~:F8=\E[32~:F9=\E[33~:FA=\E[34~:\ :kb=^H:kh=\E[1~:@1=\E[1~:kH=\E[4~:@7=\E[4~:kN=\E[6~:\ :kP=\E[5~:kI=\E[2~:kD=\E[3~:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:\ :kl=\EOD:km: Sorry, wish I could be more help. -- Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs