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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:

>> Is there a way to entirely disable scroll-back for use with curses
>> type programs?
>
> That is really weird. When in programs like vim, gnome-terminal should
> disable scrollback as the ncurses application grabs all the terminal
> display. I've tried to reproduce your problem and I can't.
>
> I was thinking on adding a setting and sending the patch to GNOME
> guys, but this won't make it in if it isn't reproduceable.

Perhaps the issue depends on which program is running?  One program 
which definitely exhibits the problem is 'pine', which I am running 
now.

Bob
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