Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 03:39:42PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Furthermore, this also suggests that the 'clear' and 'tput clear' in > Stretch clear the scrollback buffer. But this isn't true either. > 'clear' or

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > So what happened is that 'tput clear' in Stretch now behaves the > same as 'clear', while the version in Jessie of 'tput clear' > wouldn't clear the scrollback buffer. Furthermore, this also suggests that the 'clear'

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Hi, Am 2017-06-21 11:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: So what happened is that 'tput clear' in Stretch now behaves the same as 'clear', while the version in Jessie of 'tput clear' wouldn't clear the scrollback buffer.

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

First of all, thank you very much for that informative email! On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > So what happened is that 'tput clear' in Stretch now behaves the > same as 'clear', while the version in Jessie of 'tput clear' > wouldn't clear the

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > I just want to add that every reasonable shell lets you clear the screen > while preserving the scrollback buffer, simply press Control-L. Thank you! I had completely forgotten the form feed! -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea)

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On 2017-06-20 17:20 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > I just upgraded to Stretch from Jessie and I'm experiencing this weird > issue with xfce4-terminal. Whenever I type "clear" on terminal it > clears the terminal (that's expected!) *but* now I can scrollback only > a screenful. Earlier text n

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Am 2017-06-21 10:06, schrieb Christian Seiler: 'clear' and 'tput clear' are identical in Stretch, both are from ncurses-bin. This was not true in Jessie though, ncurses did change behavior between Jessie and Stretch. By the way. in case anyone was wondering: Upstream changelog about how clear

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Am 2017-06-21 05:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:27:45AM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: > > > Try: tput clear > > Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered > `clear` and

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: > Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got exactly same behavior with `tput clear`. -- Avinash

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:20:25 +0530, you wrote: >Any pointers? Try: tput clear

[Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Hello I just upgraded to Stretch from Jessie and I'm experiencing this weird issue with xfce4-terminal. Whenever I type "clear" on terminal it clears the terminal (that's expected!) *but* now I can scrollback only a screenful. Earlier text n terminal is just can't be scrollbacked to. Here are the