Version: (using KDE 4.2.0) Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package urxvt has this really nice feature that creates a 2nd buffer for screen windows that can easily be scrolled up/down with the regular pgup/pgdown keys. Having this in konsole would really be nice.
Konsole does support a secondary scroll buffer. You'll see it used when you run Vim or Less. I'll have to look into why Screen isn't using it.
Rasmus: what is $TERM for uxvt, and for Konsole?
carnager@freebox ~ % echo $TERM rxvt-unicode carnager@freebox ~ % echo $TERM xterm
When i set it to rxvt-unicode it *somewhat* works, but it behaves strange... e.g. irssi will lose all the timestamps when scrolling up...
Thanks; that implies there may be nothing "wrong" with Konsole per-se, but that your programs aren't making use of Konsole's features correctly due to a sub-optimal TERM setting. Does uxvt still "work" if you change TERM to xterm? If yes, that implies it may be more directly Konsole's fault. If not it may just be that you need a "better" TERM when using Konsole. (In either case, Robert will likely be of more help at this point; I'm just filling in the "likely suspects" stuff, I don't know that much about the technical details of Konsole or terminal capabilities.)
urxvt still works if TERM is set to xterm, but it also behaves a little different in that case. It does not mess the screen details up, like konsole with "rxvt-unicode" tho.
To be precise: Somehow urxvt manages it to keep the hardstatusline at the bottom of the terminal. This only works if TERM is set to rxvt-unicode. If i set it to xterm, i can still scrollback, but the hardstatusline is scrolled with the rest. In terminal i get either the (unwanted) behavior of the latter (plus some obvious glitches) or nothing at all.
Created attachment 32171 [details] Comparison of konsole and urxvt
And no: those are not just wrong configured colors, the text is really missing :) The text instantly appears if i set TERM back to xterm.
Konsole is for the most part supposed to be 'xterm compatible' and should advertise pretty much the same capabilities possibly with a few extras. I use the vttest program written by the X term developer for checking compatibility.
Well i guess screen itself does something wrong then. Which is sad, because without scrollback screen is only half as fun. (They seem to know about it tho, otherwise screen wouldnt have its own buffer i guess - but its not as nice to use as a *real* scrollback)
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