Bug 321949

Summary: GNU screen breaks konsole scrollback
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: kavol <kavol>
Component: historyAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: a.samirh78, luke-jr+kdebugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.10.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description kavol 2013-07-04 11:53:48 UTC
If I run `screen` in konsole window, the scrollback is completely disabled - the scrollbar is grayed out, I cannot see text that already rolled out of the window, the search function does not work ...

I've found an older bug #123643 dealing with this, but the suggested workaround does not work for me, and also I cannot find any mention about the issue in the current documentation at http://docs.kde.org/development/en/applications/konsole/index.html

Also, it'd be nice if that could be fixed on a application level, rather than leaving it upon every single user to search for workaround and apply it on each and every machine under each user account where screen is run ...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run `konsole`
2. in konsole, run `screen`
3. run some command with lot of output, e.g. `rpm -qa` on rpm based distro
4. try to see previous page of output by hitting Shift+PgUp
5. try to search in the output using Ctrl+Shift+F
Actual Results:  
4. does not work, you can see just the last page of output
5. does not work, the search bar pops up but finds nothing

Expected Results:  
4. last but one page of output is shown
5. the output will scroll to a place where the searched string is present and all occurences of the string are highlighted

hm, I believe about ~1/2 year ago the scrollback in konsole had worked with screen, otherwise I'd report this earlier ...
Comment 1 Luke-Jr 2014-03-26 02:55:19 UTC
Ideally, Konsole should make the screen buffer available when attaching.
Comment 2 azrdev 2017-06-11 16:34:33 UTC
maybe related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185582
Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2018-02-28 18:51:08 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185582 ***