You have been subscribed to a public bug: I initially reported this as a bug against the gnome-system-log in the gnome-utils package (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748027) but was informed by Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> that the problem was upstream and I should report the problem here. I don't know what package to report it against because I don't know what package x11's scrolling text view is in.
Here is my original statement of the problem: I am trying to read earlier entries in the kern.log or the syslog so I use the scroll bar on the text view to attempt to scroll back but I am constantly thwarted by gnome-system-log scrolling to the tail of the file because a new line was added to the log. gnome-system-log does this even WHILE I am dragging the scroll elevator up attempting to view earlier entries in the log! I appreciate the value of automatically scrolling to the tail of the log when a new entry is added. But doing so when the user is attempting to scroll back to read earlier entries is thwarting the user's use of the scroll bar. I suggest that if the user has scrolled back to view earlier entries in the log, gnome-system-log should suspend it's "scroll to tail when new entries added" behavior until the user has scrolled to the end of the log again. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic-pae 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Architecture: i386 DRM.card0.DP.1: status: disconnected enabled: disabled dpms: On modes: edid-base64: DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1: status: disconnected enabled: disabled dpms: On modes: edid-base64: DRM.card0.LVDS.1: status: connected enabled: enabled dpms: On modes: 1366x768 edid-base64: AP///////wAw5D8CAAAAAAATAQOAHRB4Cu4llVlViykiUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBPhxWoFAAFjAwIDUAJaUQAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gAAAABMR0Rpc3BsYXkKAAAA/gBMUDEzM1dIMi1UTEE0AHg= DRM.card0.VGA.1: status: disconnected enabled: disabled dpms: On modes: edid-base64: Date: Fri Apr 8 23:33:21 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b1d8 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: Acer Aspire 3820 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic-pae root=UUID=39e00792-ec36-4316-ba24-3346fd0f9dc2 ro acpi_osi=Linux quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xorg dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: V1.19 dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.board.name: JM31_CP dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: V1.19 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: V1.19 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.19:bd10/27/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire3820:pvrV1.19:rvnAcer:rnJM31_CP:rvrV1.19:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.19: dmi.product.name: Aspire 3820 dmi.product.version: V1.19 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: maverick architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.35-28-generic-pae ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick -- scrolling text view: auto-scroll to bottom behavior https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755291 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp