On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:10:38PM +0000, Michael Grant wrote: > I use screen on bsd and debian through putty. On the freebsd system (which > is quite old), I can use the scroll bar in the window. On the debian > system, screen itself seems to manage the lines off the top of the putty > window, I can't use the scrollbar.
I use this in my .screenrc: termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@ I think this basically tells screen not to use the terminal's "alternate screen". You can still have screen emulate the "alternate screen" though. I also put this in my .screenrc: altscreen on Note none of this will help with the problem you described when switching between the windows within screen. David _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users