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Using screen, commands like less and man don't clear the screen afterwards

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Mar 15, 20265940 views
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In contrast to this question I want the clearing of the screen re-enabled for . It works fine in my terminal under Cygwin/mintty or Gnome Terminal (both s). However, when inside a session, the clearing of the screen is somehow disabled. I tried several things, like or putting the autonuke statement…

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screen -T xterm

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Fix for: Using screen, commands like less and man don't clear the screen afterwards

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You probably want to avoid or resetting TERM away from its default value while inside screen sessions (it should probably be or at least something that starts with ). Try putting the following line in your : To activate it on a per-session basis, yo…

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