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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Scrollback Buffer of "screen" in Gnome Terminal
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:32:55
Message-Id: 1168738.6A3du7VbO2@m-id.message-center.info
1 Hello.
2
3 I used to be able to start "screen" and then still be able to use the
4 "ordinary" scrollback buffer of Gnome Terminal; ie. I used to be able
5 to hit <Shift>+<Page Up> or <Shift>+<Page Down> to scroll up or down.
6 In xterm, I'm still able to do so, but no more in Gnome Terminal.
7
8 alexander@blatt ~ $ gnome-terminal --version
9 Gnome gnome-terminal 2.14.2
10
11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 10. Sep 23:20 /var/db/pkg/x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.14.2-r1
12
13 I know about the screen buffer and that I can scroll by hitting
14 <Ctrl>+<a>,<esc> followed by <Cursor Up> or <Cursor Down>. I'm not
15 talking about this buffer.
16
17 What do I have to change, so that I'm able to use the Gnome Terminal
18 buffer even when I'm inside a screen session?
19
20 To get this behaviour, I did:
21
22 1) start by running "gnome-terminal"
23 2) start screen session by running "screen"
24 3) get some output, eg. by running "ls -laR /"
25 4) press <Shift>+<Pg Up>
26
27 Expected behaviour: It scrolls up; I see older output.
28
29 Thanks,
30
31 Alexander Skwar
32 --
33 The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Scrollback Buffer of "screen" in Gnome Terminal Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>