I use the mouse for copy/paste... I hate it when I have to take my hand off the mouse!
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:14 PM Robin Lee Powell <robinleepow...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's completely different; that's scrolling through screen's > internal buffer, not the terminal's buffer. > > I find it extremely useful because I can copy and paste without > reaching for the mouse, but that's just me. (Also I've moved to > tmux, largely because of better support for that system.) > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11:33PM -0700, david kerns wrote: > > I'm a very casual screen user. To scroll in a modern terminal emulator > > while running screen you have to hit <ctrl>-a <esc> (then <esc> to get > > out of scroll mode) ... to me it's a major annoyance, and probably why > I'm > > a casual user. I suspect xterm is just too old to support whatever screen > > is doing. > > > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:29 AM Luveh Keraph <1.41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > While this is probably not screen's doing, maybe somebody in this forum > > > has the necessary expertise to suggest courses of action that I am not > > > aware of. > > > > > > I am running Slackware 15.0. If I invoke xterm I have the capability > of > > > scrolling up and down in the terminal emulator by using Shfit + PageUp > and > > > Shift + PageDown. If I invoke screen within this emulator I retain that > > > capability in the resulting shell. > > > > > > If invoke xfce4-terminal (the Xfce terminal emulator) I have the same > > > scrolling capability. However, after invoking screen from this terminal > > > emulator the scrolling capability is not present any more in the > resulting > > > shell. > > > > > > When brought to their attention, the Xfce people did some hand-waving > > > while concluding, in essence, that this is expected behavior for all > > > terminal emulators - which is obviously not right. I really think this > is > > > an issue (a feature?) with xfce4-terminal, but I wonder whether > somebody > > > with a deep knowledge of the ins and outs of screen might suggest > > > screen tweaks to get around it? > > > > > > > > > >
