Re: Scrollback default in terminal emulators?
Brian Boonstra <boonstb@cmg.FCNBD.COM> writes:
> I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent
>terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here
>to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a secret
>environment variable/config file?
If you start the terminal from a window manager menu entry, you should
be able to configure the window manager to automatically start it with
command-line arguments like "-sl 1000", which gives 1000 lines of
scrollback (for at least xterm and rxvt). For example, this is from my
~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook:
+ "%mini.xterm.xpm%xterm 80x58" \
Exec xterm -geometry 80x58-0-0 -sb -sl 1000 -ls
If you can't give command-line arguments automatically, the default
number of lines can usually be set in a resource. From what I gather
of the manual pages, including the following line in your
~/.Xresources file should work for both xterm and rxvt:
XTerm*saveLines: 1000
See "man X" for details on X resources in general.
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