On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 05:09 -0700, Duncan wrote: > > If I'm going to go that far down then I'm going to reboot. For me, once > > I leave X there is no reason NOT to reboot. I know servers are totally > > different beast though. > > Well, I too spend most of my time in X (KDE), but am quite comfortable in > CLI as well, certainly to the point where I could never say once I leave X > there's no reason NOT to reboot. Sometimes, I'll switch to a CLI VT and > do my system maintenance tasks there, leaving X running in VT7. Other > times, I'll shut down X/KDE and do my maintenance stuff, then start it up > again.
Doesn't Eterm count as CLI? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/kwo-email $ ps ax|grep Eterm|wc -l 19 The virual consoles can't have 4,000 line buffers, and forget their contents on a VT switch so I prefer Eterms. Yes, I know the security issues but I'd still like them to remember persistently and more. I spent many hours searching through the kernel code and Googling and I'm pretty sure that the scroll back buffer is stored in video ram and their is only one section, thus forcing the buffer clear on VT switch and limiting the scroll back to video ram. In my case that's about 6 screen fulls (strange with 256MB of ram on the video card). If anyone knows about this for sure I would really appreciate some more information! ;-) -- Tres -- [email protected] mailing list
