Re: Bug#585494: xterm 258 has broken scrollbar, doesn't follow new output at random

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:

> Package: xterm
> Version: 258-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When going from xterm255 to 258, the following happens:
>
> At random, at xterms on the X11 servers stop having working
> scrollbars.  In that wedged state the xterm scrollbar will stay, the
> text shown will stay where it is and new output will be consed up
> below.  You can manually scroll down but it will then again not
> display new text.

This sounds like #580946, which I addressed in patch #259:

     + change default for allowScrollLock resource to false, noting that the
       supposedly unused key has been useful for various rebindings
       (closes: #580946)

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