On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:24:37PM +0100, David Fernández wrote:
> I have a question related to UML consoles showed inside xterm
> windows. I hope somebody could help us on that.
>
> In latest versions of VNUML, we always start UML virtual machines
> consoles using pts (with "con=null con0=pts" options).
>
> In order to show the console inside an X-window, we execute something like:
>
> xterm -T host1 -e screen -t host1 /dev/pts/5
>
> (or something similar using "gnome-terminal").
>
> In that way we are able to close and reopen the consoles at any time
> (which, afaik, it is not possible if you start consoles using
> "con=xterm").
>
> However, doing it that way, we lose the scroll bar capability in the
> consoles.
That's always bugged me, too. man screen does mention a scrollback
buffer, but I haven't tried setting it.
> Any idea about how to have a scroll bar? Do you know any other
> xterm-like program that can be associated with a pts and showing a
> scroll bar?
If you can't get screen to do what you want, you maybe need something
screen-like for X, lik VNC?
Jeff
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