It seems that there is no way to entirely disable scrollback in gnome-terminal as delivered with Solaris 10. The 'Scrolling' options window does not support disabling scrollback even if the scrollbar is disabled. The minimum configurable scrollback is one line and 1 kilobyte.
I would like to entirely disable scrollback because when running screen-oriented terminal programs (e.g. 'vi') if I accidentally move the mouse wheel while clicking the middle mouse button (commonly a combo wheel/button) the whole screen becomes scrambled and it is necessary to unscramble it somehow. Luckily many programs respond to CONTROL-L. Is there a way to entirely disable scroll-back for use with curses type programs? On a somewhat related note, in the "Title and Command" dialog I have configured a Custom command and selected "Run a custom command instead of my shell". The result of this is that a gnome-terminal comes up containing my custom command (good) with the icon I selected (good) but a second gnome-terminal also comes up running my shell (bad). This seems like a bug to me. My objective is to be able to start up certain programs in a gnome-terminal while using my own icon so that there is some small hope of finding the program in the mess currently known as the "Window List". Thanks, Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
