[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#618332: rxvt-unicode: screen contents not restored when detaching a "screen" session

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2011-03-14 15:22:27 +0100, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote:
> The problem is that screen fails to enable the alternate screen buffer
> in urxvt. This happens because screen sends "is2" after "smcup", and is2
> disables the alternate screen buffer. The problem does not occur in
> xterm because xterm's is2 does not disable the alternate screen buffer.

Thanks for the information.

Isn't there any standard about is2?

Is it a bug in rxvt-unicode, ncurses-base (which provides
/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode, but perhaps following recommendations
by rxvt-unicode developers) or screen (which sends "is2")?

Even if one considers that screen does something bad and should be
fixed, the incompatibility between rxvt-unicode and other terminals
(xterm, gnome-terminal) can be annoying.

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