On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 21:50:29 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Lately, I've noticed that text apps under xterm snap back to the > original screen after the app finishes. This doesn't happen with all > apps. When I hit "q" in "top", the output stays on the screen. But > other apps like "mtr" and "vim" and "less" restore the screen from which > they were launched, which is extremely annoying. > > A long time ago I ran into this problem and was advised to add > "XTerm*titeInhibit: true" in .Xresources. It seems to have stopped > working recently. Last night on a web forum people were comparing > response times from 1.1.1.1 DNS server. I ran "mtr" in xterm but the > output would disapper entirely when I hit "q". I managed to freeze the > output with {CTRL}{S} so I could do a copy/paste into a post. But I'd > like a clean solution rather than a clunky workaround.
I don't know the answer to your question, but for mtr at least you could use the -r option to produce a report of the mtr output. -- Regards, Mick
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