The major problem here is, that screen uses its own scrollback history,
and that your xterm/whatever program does not see that history because
screen always updates the visible screen with the new data, rather than
adding lines. So the question then is, how can you access screens
scrollback history? Simply put, the answer is Shift+PageUp/Down, but
most XWindows Terminal Emulators already bind Shift+PageUp/Down to their
own scrollback history, thus making it diffilcult if not impossible to
access screens scrollback within them.If anyone knows a way to
circumvent this problem, let us know! A terminal emulator that allows
scrollback rebinding even... or a way to get screen to use other keys.

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
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