Screen program is really a good piece of software for every one in the console. We use it every day to execute programs in the “background” or if we want to end our ssh session to the server without stopping our executed program. We need a tiny configuration to use our favorite scrolling of the console program under the X windowing systems!

So if you are under let’s say KDE or Gnome (especially Ubuntu and CentOS) and use konsole or xterm and you want to be able to scroll the history of your ssh sessions, when you start something under gnu screen you must set the following file at your home directory

/home/<your_user>/.screenrc

with this configuration:

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@