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I use screen with putty and have configured scroll-back buffer to a large number but I'm unable to scroll up.

What I have tried already:

  • As given in this question I tried setting defscrollback 10000 in .screenrc but that doesn't seem to reflect a change.

  • I have also tried exiting putty, closing all sessions of screen and starting things over again but it didn't help.

  • setting ctrl-a then :scrollback 10000 is not working either.

system specs:

uname -a
Linux amandeeg.desktop.amazon.com 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux`

lsb_release -ir    
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseClient 
Release:        5.4

screen --vewrsion
Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
Vadim Kotov
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Aman Deep Gautam
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  • see this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/359109/using-the-scrollwheel-in-gnu-screen#1125947 on how to enable scroll-backs using mouse wheel. short answer add `termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@` to your `.screenrc` – Zahra Oct 26 '17 at 19:10

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Define “not working”. What are you doing to see that it does not work?

A hint: You have to change to copy/scrollback mode with Ctrl-a Esc and then move the cursor or page up to see the historic lines in the scrollback buffer. They are not in your terminal’s buffer!

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