Re: Scrollback going away in lxterminal

On 29/04/2024 02:43, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

One lxterminal window with several tabs has stopped saving a scrollback
buffer.  The only control I can find is Edit > Preferences > Scrollback
which says I have 880 lines of scrollback, but the thumb fills the slider
and rolling the mouse wheel works like the up-arrow key, displaying
previous commands.

Try the reset command. This can happen if a program which does curses output such as an editor is killed without restoring the terminal state correctly.
---druck