[gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
Did you tried shift + pgup? it will let you scroll a bit up. Opposite for shift +pgdown D Il giorno 30/gen/2012 11:56, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au ha scritto: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au napsáno: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew Shift + PgUP Robert.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
If you need some more features, you might want to consider using a terminal multiplexer like tmux or gnu screen, which have their own scrollback buffer. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
2012/1/30 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com If you need some more features, you might want to consider using a terminal multiplexer like tmux or gnu screen, which have their own scrollback buffer. Both tmux and screen will suite the OP's needs, s/he should also consider piping their output to more or less. ps auxf | more or ps auxf | less My personal preference is to use less, I find it to support my Vi/ViM habits more appropriately. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C)
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
On Monday 30 Jan 2012 11:40:04 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you need some more features, you might want to consider using a terminal multiplexer like tmux or gnu screen, which have their own scrollback buffer. If you have logged in a console you should be able to scroll up/down. However, if you are still looking at the login prompt then on my machines at least you cannot scroll up to see what happened during boot. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
On 01/30/12 19:20, Robert David wrote: V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au napsáno: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew Shift + PgUP Robert. Thanks to those who suggested Shift PgUp/PgDn, it worked and I'm now sending this from within KDE. The post on screen was also a good one, I'll have to file that away for later use. Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
Le 30/01/2012 16:03, Andrew Lowe a écrit : On 01/30/12 19:20, Robert David wrote: V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 Andrew Lowea...@wht.com.au napsáno: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew Shift + PgUP Robert. Thanks to those who suggested Shift PgUp/PgDn, it worked and I'm now sending this from within KDE. The post on screen was also a good one, I'll have to file that away for later use. Andrew The number of lines scrolables is defined in a kernel param. Florian P.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
Le 30/01/2012 16:33, Florian Pougheon a écrit : Le 30/01/2012 16:03, Andrew Lowe a écrit : On 01/30/12 19:20, Robert David wrote: V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800 Andrew Lowea...@wht.com.au napsáno: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all, and attempt to do stuff to debug the problem the output scrolls off the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the output and review the results of my fiddles? Regards, Andrew Shift + PgUP Robert. Thanks to those who suggested Shift PgUp/PgDn, it worked and I'm now sending this from within KDE. The post on screen was also a good one, I'll have to file that away for later use. Andrew The number of lines scrolables is defined in a kernel param. Florian P. After investiguating : the kernel param is : CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE it seems that you can customize this in grub kernel line : fbcon=scrollback:128 Florian P.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
El lun, 30-01-2012 a las 08:54 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: My personal preference is to use less, I find it to support my Vi/ViM habits more appropriately. Then you would love vimpager. Greetings, -- Jorge Martínez López
Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
On Jan 31, 2012 3:04 AM, Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com wrote: El lun, 30-01-2012 a las 08:54 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: My personal preference is to use less, I find it to support my Vi/ViM habits more appropriately. Then you would love vimpager. And vimmanpager :-) A couple of months back, there was a discussion in this here list about vimmanpager, and how there is no eselect module to specify which pager to be used by man. Someone kindly provided such module for me, but I forgot who exactly :-( In my systems, I even created a symlink /usr/local/bin/less that refers to vimpager. Rgds,
