[gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling

[gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling

[David Sveningsson]

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Hi, I disabled xterm scroll-to-bottom using -si but it is pretty much
useless since the output keeps scrolling anyway. I would like to be able
to scroll freely in the terminal output without any interfering
automatic scrolling. Like Terminal.app in Mac OSX. I've tried reading
the manual and googled a bit but I couldn't find anything. Is it possible?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Disable xterm scroll-to-bottom and auto scrolling

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 20:50:16 David Sveningsson wrote:
> Hi, I disabled xterm scroll-to-bottom using -si but it is pretty much
> useless since the output keeps scrolling anyway. I would like to be able
> to scroll freely in the terminal output without any interfering
> automatic scrolling. Like Terminal.app in Mac OSX. I've tried reading
> the manual and googled a bit but I couldn't find anything. Is it
> possible?

In KDE, if you use the mouse to scroll up the Konsole display while a 
program is still updating it. the text gets added to the bit of the display 
you can't see; the only visible effect is the thumb moving up the scroll 
bar. At least, my box does that; it may depend on telling Konsole to allow 
flow control with <CTRL>-Q and <CTRL>-S, which I like to have as well.

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Rgds
Peter