[desktop-discuss] gnome-terminal scrollback and other annoyances

[Bob Friesenhahn]

It seems that there is no way to entirely disable scrollback in 
gnome-terminal as delivered with Solaris 10.  The 'Scrolling' options 
window does not support disabling scrollback even if the scrollbar is 
disabled.  The minimum configurable scrollback is one line and 1 
kilobyte.

I would like to entirely disable scrollback because when running 
screen-oriented terminal programs (e.g. 'vi') if I accidentally move 
the mouse wheel while clicking the middle mouse button (commonly a 
combo wheel/button) the whole screen becomes scrambled and it is 
necessary to unscramble it somehow.  Luckily many programs respond to 
CONTROL-L.

Is there a way to entirely disable scroll-back for use with curses 
type programs?

On a somewhat related note, in the "Title and Command" dialog I have 
configured a Custom command and selected "Run a custom command instead 
of my shell".  The result of this is that a gnome-terminal comes up 
containing my custom command (good) with the icon I selected (good) 
but a second gnome-terminal also comes up running my shell (bad). 
This seems like a bug to me.  My objective is to be able to start up 
certain programs in a gnome-terminal while using my own icon so that 
there is some small hope of finding the program in the mess currently 
known as the "Window List".

Thanks,

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/