Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-utils
I am trying to read earlier entries in the kern.log or the syslog so I
use the scroll bar on the text view to attempt to scroll back but I am
constantly thwarted by gnome-system-log scrolling to the tail of the
file because a new line was added to the log. gnome-system-log does
this even WHILE I am dragging the scroll elevator up attempting to view
earlier entries in the log!
I appreciate the value of automatically scrolling to the tail of the log
when a new entry is added. But doing so when the user is attempting to
scroll back to read earlier entries is thwarting the user's use of the
scroll bar.
I suggest that if the user has scrolled back to view earlier entries in
the log, gnome-system-log should suspend it's "scroll to tail when new
entries added" behavior until the user has scrolled to the end of the
log again.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-system-log 2.31.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c895e55d2d32741d4cfd81bfec0f49b0
CheckboxSystem: 2954e74ba17fb0e37fc942cd1d9fab4e
Date: Fri Apr 1 22:06:27 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-log
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
** Affects: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick
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Title:
gnome-system-log: cannot read when scrolled-back
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