scrollbars gone when using screen

Kenny Grimm plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
09 Dec 2002 20:05:24 -0700


On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 19:18, Gontran Zepeda wrote:
> # On 2002-12-09 at 16:23:57 -0800, Kenny M. Grimm wrote:
> > I'm using screen through both Konsole and nxterm and when using screen,
> > the scrollbar does not work (it's there but shows no history).  It seems
> > that the terminal emulator being used would have to be aware of screen so
> > that it could keep a separate scrollback buffer for each new screen.  Is
> > there any way to get this to work?
> 
> This is a feature, of course. :)  It's that you're running an application
> inside of your terminal, auto adjusting to whatever size you make your
> terminal window -- and not effecting the _terminal's_ scrollback buffer at
> all.
> 
> Within screen, you can specify as large of a scrollback buffer as you may
> like using the -h num switch when invoking (or maybe in your .screenrc) and
> access it by using <shift>+<PageUp> and down, maybe in other ways too.
> 
> hth,
> Gontran


Ok, that makes sense, and is what I'm looking for.  Now I've tried
setting my scrollback with 'screen -h 1000' and still cannot use
<shift>+<PageUp> to scroll up.  Is this a binding I need to set and is
there any other sequence that accomplishes this by default?

Thanks for the help,
Kenny