Terminal

Unlimited scrollback

Bug #968055 reported by Cris Dywan on 2012-03-29

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Terminal	Fix Released	Low	David Gomes	Terminal 0.1

Bug Description

I'd like to have unlimited scrollback. There is no way to achieve that in the UI. I did notice a secret hack in another report about using -1 which is counter-intuitive.

Would it be unreasonable to simply always have unlimited scrollback?

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Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber) wrote on 2012-03-29:

I don't know if in the refactoring in already this way, but there was the idea to have unlimited scrollback as default and configurable via d-conf, because it's not an option many users may want to change from default.

David Gomes (davidgomes) on 2012-04-07

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Low
milestone:	none → luna-beta1
assignee:	nobody → David Gomes (davidgomes)

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Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g) wrote on 2012-04-14:

it seems that libvte doesn't support the unlimited scrollback right now

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Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber) wrote on 2012-04-14:

Mario, Vte does support unlimited scrollback (you have to set a negative value using set_scrollback_lines), it's just that set_scrollback_lines doesn't work at all right now. I don't know if it's a pantheon-terminal's or vte's bug, though

David Gomes (davidgomes) on 2012-04-29

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g) on 2012-07-26

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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