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Linux screen utility buffer scrolling

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title: 'Linux Screen Utility Buffer Scrolling'
date: '2019-06-18T11:06:50-05:00'
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If you use the Linux screen utility a lot for long running jobs etc you may have experienced scrolling issues. The quickest way is to try Control-a and then Escape. You should now be able to use Up/Down keys or even PgUp/PgDn. Press Escape to exit scrolling.

In my case most of the time the terminal is running in a Virtualbox guest so you may or may not have to take into account Virtualbox key grabbing/assigning.