On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:56:02PM -0800, Bill Longman wrote > You can always call it back up. The other window, that is. Just > Ctrl-middle-click the xterm and choose "Show alternate screen". > > Presto. > > It's saved my bacon more than once....
Yes that works. There's an even better option listed when I middle- click. The option "Enable Alternate Screen Switching" is checked by default on my system. Unchecking it disables alternate screen switching, which does what I was asking for. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The ultimate solution is to make this a default. Once I realized this was an xterm setting, I plowed through "man xterm" and discovered... > titeInhibit (class TiteInhibit) > Specifies whether or not xterm should remove ti and te termcap > entries (used to switch between alternate screens on startup of > many screen-oriented programs) from the TERMCAP string. If > set, xterm also ignores the escape sequence to switch to the > alternate screen. A Google search found http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/XWindow-User-HOWTO/moreconfig.html which includes the ~/.Xdefaults incantation... ! Do not clear the screen after the program exits XTerm*VT100*titeInhibit: true -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
