Re: Scrollback going away in lxterminal

druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

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.

That makes considerable sense, I think the problem appears when
an lxterminal session running top on the remote host exits
ungracefully. But:

I can find a "reset zoom" command in lxterminal, but the man
page does not contain the word "reset". Nor does top's man page.

Is "reset zoom" what you're suggesting? For the moment I'm not
seeing the problem, so it's hard to experiment. If by reset
you mean kill the tab and re-open it, yes, that works...

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska