'screen' utility : how to prevent it to handle the display?

Question

The screen program fully controls what's displayed. For example the scrollback buffer is not the one of the terminal.
I don't like the idea to have a separate set of commands, and a separate set of settings for exactly the same goal. This also forbid me to copy/paste 200 line from the scrollback buffer into a text editor, to use the mouse, etc.

Is there a way to tell screen to just record what's displayed, and let the terminal do the job ?
Or maybe another program instead of screen ?

I agree this is a duplicate. And not workable solution (the given solution is a trick. Still impossible to select 200 lines with the mouse or use scrollbars, and many other things). — Gregory MOUSSAT, Jun 02 '13 at 19:47
Are you just looking for tools like script and its scriptreplay counterpart? — Patrice Levesque, Jun 02 '13 at 19:38

slm · Answer 1 · 2013-06-02T20:19:56.320

If you want an alternative to screen there is always tmux. Main site is here.

If you don't want screen to buffer the scroll back it's the option:

screen -S testsession -h 0

or in the .screenrc file add the line:

defscrollback 0

With this option in place I was able to scroll back in my terminal using Shift + Page Up and Shift + Page Down.

EDIT #1

This option most definitely works for me on Fedora 14 with screen version 4.0.3-15 on GNOME 2.32. When I do this I'm in a gnome-terminal window which has the scroll back configured for 3000 lines.

ss of gnome-terminal scrollback