Subj : Re: Scrollback going away in lxterminal To : bp@www.zefox.net From : Robert Riches Date : Sat May 04 2024 02:16:02 On 2024-05-03, wrote: > druck wrote: >> On 29/04/2024 02:43, bp@www.zefox.net wrote: >>> One lxterminal window with several tabs has stopped saving a scrollback >>> buffer. The only control I can find is Edit > Preferences > Scrollback >>> which says I have 880 lines of scrollback, but the thumb fills the slider >>> and rolling the mouse wheel works like the up-arrow key, displaying >>> previous commands. >> >> Try the reset command. This can happen if a program which does curses >> output such as an editor is killed without restoring the terminal state >> correctly. > > That makes considerable sense, I think the problem appears when > an lxterminal session running top on the remote host exits > ungracefully. But: > > I can find a "reset zoom" command in lxterminal, but the man > page does not contain the word "reset". Nor does top's man page. > > Is "reset zoom" what you're suggesting? For the moment I'm not > seeing the problem, so it's hard to experiment. If by reset > you mean kill the tab and re-open it, yes, that works... > > Thanks for writing! > > bob prohaska I'm not the one who suggested it, but I have used on occasion I have used a "/usr/bin/reset" command. It's likely that's what the original suggester meant. Also useful are "stty sane" and "tset". HTH -- Robert Riches spamtrap42@jacob21819.net (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.) --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .