Bob:

> Is there a way to entirely disable scroll-back for use with curses 
> type programs?

I find if I set the # of Scrollback display lines to less than the
height of the screen (e.g. 1) that this effectively disables scrollback.
My mouse doesn't have a mousewheel, so I can't test in your situation
exactly, but the scrollbar doesn't let me scroll when I set lines to
1.

> 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".

Have you checked "man gnome-terminal" to see if there is an option
like --execute you could try?  Also --disable-factory might be useful
to play with.

By default gnome-terminal runs as a single process and when you try
to launch another terminal, it just signals the main process to
launch another window.  This feature might not be working with what
you are trying to do, so always running gnome-terminal with
--disable-factory might make a difference.

Brian

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