Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-08-16 09:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:58:57AM -0700, Mike wrote:
When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. If possible I'd like to set the scroll back to 600 lines or so (at least).
Question: How do I increase the scrollback on 4.10?
That depends on the console program you're using. For an xterm(1), the following in ~/.Xdefaults will give you 8k scrollback lines:
xterm*saveLines: 8192
xterm like programs allow the -sl switch lines. I've had problems with numbers approaching 32767 but have never nailed down exactly how many lines I can save. I safely use -sl 30000 for xterm, rxvt, aterm, and gnome-terminal.
I use screen most of the time in my terminal sessions, which also includes a nice option for scrollback. Putting the following in my ~/.screenrc file works like a charm:
defscrollback 10000
This is IMHO a bit more preferable than using syscons scrollback,
because syscons allocates memory inside the kernel for the scrollback
buffer IIRC. I tend to prefer userspace allocations when possible, like
the xterm -sl or screen's scrollback.
Greetings:
Thank you for the tips!!!
I went and tried this using this kdbcontrol command in my .cshrc:
# added to increase scrollback to 1000 /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -h 1000
This gave me 1,000 lines when I'm logged into the console however, it resulted in a "Inapproriate ioctrl for device" error when using xterm (xfterm4) under xfce4.
So I removed the "kdbcontrol" from my .cshrc and used a "-sl 3000" option to launch xfterm4.
So launching "xfterm4 -sl 3000" now does the trick!
Regards, Michael
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