Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

[Sam Leon <debian@net153.net>]

Matthew Moore wrote:
> On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote:
> > Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad:
> > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen.
> > > > However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made
> > > > it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term:
> > > >
> > > > defscrollback 5000
> > > > termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te
> > > >
> > > > xfce4's terminal settings reflect an xterm. rxvt and other
> > > > terminal emulators - when I press pageUP so scroll, simply go back
> > > > in my shell history.
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody have a proper working config for me? Cold help a lot.
> > > not sure I undestand, but
> > >
> > > I use two methods shift-pageup and ctrl-x and then arrows keys, my magic
> > > key is ctrl-x not ctrl-a
> > Well... when I do that I can scroll up, but just within he
> > xfce4-terminal, rxvt... buffer.
> > That means I leave screen's screen, where the current screen-window's
> > text is rolling.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you want some way to easily scroll *inside* of 
> screen. AFAIK the easiest way to do this is to use the "copy" command, by 
> default 'ctrl-a ['. I guess that if you want to use pageup to scroll, you 
> could bind it using the appropriately named "bind" command in your .screenrc 
> file.
>
> MM

ctrl-a esc is what I use
Sam