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How to scroll up and down in sliced "screen" terminal

I just installed screen and like the idea to divide linux terminal into multiple pieces. But I can't figure out one thing: How to scroll up and down, when I'm in screen. When I'm using regular linux terminal I can achieve this with Shift + Pg Up or Shift + Pg Dn`. but unfortunatelly it doesn't work in divided terminal.

That's what I mean when saying screen and divided terminal: enter image description here

And that's a regular termina (just in case): enter image description here

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Vor Avatar asked Aug 28 '13 13:08

Vor


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2 Answers

1.Control+a, then Escape.
2. after that, you should be able to move your cursor around using the arrow keys:
, , PgUp, PgDn
3. return control: q or Esc

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Anthony Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 00:10

Anthony


Press Ctrl-a then [ will enter the copy mode, and you can scroll up and down like vim editor. Leave the copy mode by pressing Escape.

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Wei-Yan Lin Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 00:10

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