Re: Scrolling from within terminal emulators

[Brian Mathis]

JCA wrote:
>   I have noticed that when starting rscreen as a process running on a
> terminal emulator (xterm, gnome-terminal) the scrolling capabilities
> of the terminal emulator seem to be disabled. In particular, the
> PageUp, PageDown keys in the keyboard, that allow one to move up and
> down the output in the terminal emulator (up to the number of lines
> saved by this application) do not work anymore.
>
>   My query: Is it possible to map the scrolling capabilities built
> into screen on to the PageUp, Page Down keys?

From the FAQ:
http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq.html

You can make your scrollbars work again by using this in your .screenrc 
file:
        termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@

It won't be modal as Phil mentioned, but you can scroll back better than 
without it.