Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Neil. On Mar 11, 2013 3:31 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Consider: ps -ef | cat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
Ok, that works too, but COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef has a unique prefix in the history, so I can rerun it with !C Horses for courses... Neil On Mar 12, 2013 8:30 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: PAGER=/bin/cat man command Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... In what situation does ps page the output? ps -ef, for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 7, 2013 10:08 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: man command | cat where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I hope), Put

[ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
Hi, I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled, and discovered that man uses less to display the pages, but all the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi Jim On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Andrew Woodward
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +, Jim Price wrote: Hi, I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled, and discovered

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 19:20, Andrew Woodward wrote: On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +, Jim Price wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Price
On 07/03/13 21:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: That's a reasonable workaround. Curiously the problem seems to have fixed itself now, and I have no idea whether it's because of something I did or not. I did do a re-install of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: man command | cat where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I hope), Put this in your .bashrc or .profile: export PAGER=/bin/cat Now paging