Scrolling back in screen

A few years ago I discovered screen, a nice Linux tool that enables you to detached from terminal with commands running and all in the background. You can even connect later from a different computer and continue where you left off. I initially used it for rtorrent, but now I also use it to administer remote computers, for example when I start to do something that might take more than a day, I can log back in tomorrow. Also loggin in from home/work to complete some task, etc. Another use is administering remote computers on dial-up (yes, there are some) or slow and unstable 3G connections. Even if connection breaks down, I can log in later and pick up where it stopped.

One of the annoying "problems" with screen is that shift+page up/down does not scroll the buffer. This is due to the fact that screen has its own buffers. To work with them you need to enter the "copy mode" using Ctrl+a followed by [. Since I use non-English keyboard that's Ctrl+a, AltGr+f. Hard to remember when you don't use it often.

I use Konsole, and I found a way to make it work by adding the following lines to .screenrc (in my home directory):

termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@

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