Re: Scrollback going away in lxterminal

On 2024-05-03, <bp@www.zefox.net> <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

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.

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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

I'm not the one who suggested it, but I have used on occasion I
have used a "/usr/bin/reset" command.  It's likely that's what
the original suggester meant.  Also useful are "stty sane" and
"tset".

HTH

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