Re: less, exit but left content on screen
Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> wrote:
> Curious! I haven't had xterm installed now for some time, so I'm going
> from memory. Main reason I chose aterm was for the smaller footprint.
> At the moment I have 2 aterms running that would suggest more than
> scrollback buffer size are factors in RSS:
right - there are several factors (some are easy to reproduce, others may
for instance depend on the history of the process). fwiw, I was also running
xterm compiled for the toolbar, so that would increase xterm's runtime by
some amount.
> $ ps aux |grep aterm
> ralph 2899 0.0 0.9 5956 2360 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm
> -tn xterm -sl 5000 -geometry +0-25
> ralph 2900 0.0 0.9 5956 2412 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm
> -tr -trsb -rv -sl 100 -sh 95 -geometry +700-350 -e tail -f /var/log/auth.log
> ralph 3064 0.0 0.2 1956 640 pts/1 R+ 08:10 0:00 grep aterm
> $
> Anyway, this is OT (my fault), so did aterm solve your original question
> about leaving output from 'less' onscreen after exiting?
...not _my_ original question (the OP's question was answered in effect by
noting that it's a detail of the terminal description rather than the
terminal emulator).
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