How to scroll up and down in sliced "screen" terminal

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Vor picture Vor · Aug 28, 2013 · Viewed 74.4k times · Source

I just installed screen and like the idea to divide linux terminal into multiple pieces. But I can't figure out one thing: How to scroll up and down, when I'm in screen. When I'm using regular linux terminal I can achieve this with Shift + Pg Up or Shift + Pg Dn`. but unfortunatelly it doesn't work in divided terminal.

That's what I mean when saying screen and divided terminal: enter image description here

And that's a regular termina (just in case): enter image description here

Answer

Anthony picture Anthony · Aug 31, 2013

Try Control+a, then Escape. After that, you should be able to move your cursor around using the arrow keys.

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