#948761 screen: improve examples in /etc/screenrc

Package:
screen
Source:
screen
Description:
terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Submitter:
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date:
2026-08-29 13:21:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#948761#5
Date:
2020-01-13 03:07:04 UTC
From:
To:
Hi.

Currently /etc/screenrc contains:
#termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@


This could perhaps be improved to:
#termcapinfo xterm*|xs|rxvt ti@:te@

(right now e.g. xterm-256color isn't matched)


Also, right below it, the following could be added:

#hotkeys for Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown navigation in screen’s copy/scrollback mode

#scroll the display up/down by a half screen
#bindkey '^[[5;5~' eval 'copy' 'stuff ^u'
#bindkey '^[[6;5~' eval 'copy' 'stuff ^d'

#scroll the display up/down by a full screen
#bindkey '^[[5;5~' eval 'copy' 'stuff ^b'
#bindkey '^[[6;5~' eval 'copy' 'stuff ^f'


These seem to work nicely in addition to disabling the alternate screen buffer
(which allows scrolling in the terminal, but not if the output was made while
the session wasn't attached and thus copy/scrollback mode needs to be used again)


Cheers,
Chris.
#948761#10
Date:
2020-01-13 03:18:30 UTC
From:
To:
Oops... doesn't seem to work if the keycode is single-quoted, so it
would need to read:

#hotkeys for Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown navigation in screen’s
copy/scrollback mode

#scroll the display up/down by a half screen
#bindkey "^[[5;5~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^u'
#bindkey "^[[6;5~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^d'

#scroll the display up/down by a full screen
#bindkey "^[[5;5~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^b'
#bindkey "^[[6;5~" eval 'copy' 'stuff ^f'


Cheers,
Chris.
#948761#15
Date:
2026-08-29 13:19:22 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
screen, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 948761@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Peter Dey <debian@realmtech.net> (supplier of updated screen package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:57:57 +0200
Source: screen
Architecture: source
Version: 5.0.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Changed-By: Peter Dey <debian@realmtech.net>
Closes: 215955 860922 948761 1140624 1144637 1145436
Changes:
 screen (5.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Peter Dey ]
   * New upstream release 5.0.2
   * Refresh patch queue for 5.0.2 and drop patches applied upstream
   * Document how to copy screen5 terminfo (Closes: #1140624)
   * Simplified xterm scrollback buffer example to xterm* (Closes: #948761)
   * Add patch 103: Fail if requested baud not successfully applied (Closes: #860922)
   * Add patch 104: Fix UTF-8 caption handling for non-ASCII titles (Closes: #215955)
   * Add patch 105: Fix UTF-8 hardstatus/caption width accounting
   * Add patch 106: Avoid UTF-8 double-encoding in xterm OSC forwarding
   * Add patch 107: Force absolute cursor restore after hardstatus redraw (Closes: #1145436)
   * Add patch 108: Drop deflogin/login from documentation and example screenrc (Closes: #1144637)
 .
   [ Otto Kekäläinen ]
   * Bump Debhelper version from 13 to 14
   * Update d/watch to use uscan v5 format
   * Update git repository layout to follow DEP-14
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