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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:56:02PM -0800, Bill Longman wrote |
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> You can always call it back up. The other window, that is. Just |
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> Ctrl-middle-click the xterm and choose "Show alternate screen". |
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> Presto. |
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> It's saved my bacon more than once.... |
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Yes that works. There's an even better option listed when I middle- |
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click. The option "Enable Alternate Screen Switching" is checked by |
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default on my system. Unchecking it disables alternate screen |
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switching, which does what I was asking for. Thanks for pointing me in |
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the right direction. |
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The ultimate solution is to make this a default. Once I realized this |
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was an xterm setting, I plowed through "man xterm" and discovered... |
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> titeInhibit (class TiteInhibit) |
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> Specifies whether or not xterm should remove ti and te termcap |
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> entries (used to switch between alternate screens on startup of |
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> many screen-oriented programs) from the TERMCAP string. If |
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> set, xterm also ignores the escape sequence to switch to the |
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> alternate screen. |
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A Google search found |
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http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/XWindow-User-HOWTO/moreconfig.html |
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which includes the ~/.Xdefaults incantation... |
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! Do not clear the screen after the program exits |
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XTerm*VT100*titeInhibit: true |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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