diff --git a/screen-write.c b/screen-write.c
index 9f9d7ace..5065be54 100644
--- a/screen-write.c
+++ b/screen-write.c
@@ -1887,6 +1887,8 @@ screen_write_collect_add(struct screen_write_ctx *ctx,
 	u_int				 sx = screen_size_x(s);
 	int				 collect;
 
+	ctx->flags &= ~SCREEN_WRITE_COMBINE;
+
 	/*
 	 * Don't need to check that the attributes and whatnot are still the
 	 * same - input_parse will end the collection when anything that isn't