Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Regarding some recent discussion of getting a convenient scrollback buffer working with screen in an Xterm: I notice that Ctrl-PgUp works fine in Putty under windows.
Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn in PuTTY, IIRC, is used to scroll back in PuTTY's own buffer. You can also do some variation of this in most of the XTerm emulators available on Linux when running Screen. Due to my limited knowledge of how the specific protocol works, I can only guess, but I think that works because new lines in the buffer are appended to the bottom of the screen and old lines are pushed off the top.
In Screen the official scroll back method is Ctrl+A ESC then PgUp and PgDn. ESC to exit scroll mode. You can also mark for copy and paste in this mode.