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On Thursday 15 February 2007, Roman Naumann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> does someone know, how to increase the "history-buffer's size" of the |
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> terminal? (and I mean the pure terminal, without an X-Server) |
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> I mean, if I use some commands producing plenty of output, I cannot |
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> scroll to the beginning of the text quite often, because the history |
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> buffer is to small. |
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Sounds like you want to increase the kernel's scrollback buffer size for |
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the terminal. |
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In make menuconfig, it's Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> |
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Scrollback buffer size |
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> Another inconvenient thing is that the buffer seems to "forget" |
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> everything except the last screen of text, if I switch to another |
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> terminal. (alt + F2 for instance). |
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Sorry, can't help with that one. If it's any consolation, I've also been |
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looking for a solution to that for ages |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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