Re: persistent xterm sessions

["Derek Martin-9" <user=7@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:16:02PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: 
> On a side note, I've noticed when I use screen inside an xterm on 
> Ubuntu, screen breaks xterm's scrollback buffer. Doing things like 
> viewing a man page causes screen to "eat" the output of man such that it 
> disappears from the scrollback history. It appears to be treating man 
> like a curses app. 

Presumably this is because the output of man is paged by the less 
command.  Along with some other screen-oriented programs, less has the 
ability to use a terminal's alternate screen (if it has one, xterm and 
friends do).  This is set in xterm with a resource: 

XTerm.vt100.titeInhibit:  true 

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