On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Brian Cameron wrote: > >> 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.
I have the scrollbar removed entirely and scrollback lines set to one yet it still scrolls back through terminal update history due to mousewheel movement. You must have an old mouse. It is almost impossible to find a new mouse without a mousewheel. > 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. I used to use --execute but that did not seem to allow me to specify the window icon. > 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. I will try that. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
