From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: If running screen inside x11-based terminal, nothing gets from screen to terminals backscroll buffer. I can't really explain this but here's how to reproduce: Try 1: 1) run xterm/kterm/wterm/rxvt with scrollbuffer 2) run screen 3) run something that produces many lines of text (ps, ls) 4) nothing gets to terminals scroll buffer (terminals sidebar doesn't grow or shift-pgup/pgdn doesn't work) Try 2: Same without running screen: works perfectly. Try 3: 1) run xterm/any other terminal 2) run ps for example <-- this is added to scroll buffer. 3) run screen 4) run ls for example <-- this is not added to scroll buffer. 5) so now scrolling buffer up will print output of 'ps' that was run earlier, not ls as it should. Try 4: 1) now in console, without X. Login. 2) run screen 3) run ls or something that produces many lines 4) scrolling up/down with shift-pgup/pgdn works fine. With FC1 everything worked fine. I'm not sure if this is screen related, i've tried to downgrade following packages back to fc1: screen, bash, termcap, libtermcap with no results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): screen-4.0.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: described in description. Actual Results: I didn't see anything in scroll buffer :) Expected Results: I should have seen scroll buffer :) Additional info: Explained in description.
Seems this is screen feature, not a bug, closing. Uncommenting these lines in screenrc was the solution. # Do not use xterms alternate window buffer. # This one would not add lines to the scrollback buffer. #termcap xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l #terminfo xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l
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