[arch-general] odd behavior of screen

[aakempf at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 05:37:09PM +0200, Michał Zegan wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Since few upgrades of screen, I observe a strange behavior of it, that i
> s:
> I run weechat in screen.
> When I detach the screen session, then it works correctly except that
> the weechat window does not disappear from the screen, and the bash
> prompt is printed like on top of it. I have to use clear command to
> fix that.
> It is a similar effect to when someone uses a write or wall command
> and it sends a message to you while you are inside a fullscreen
> program, and it garbles the output completely.

Do you have

altscreen on

in your screenrc?

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Redisplay