Re: Stop gnome-terminal from clearing screen

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 18:33 +0000, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:42 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:

> > > Is this the only method to stop gnome-terminal from clearing on
> > > program exit at this time?
> > > http://fixlog.blogspot.com/2006/09/stop-gnome-terminal-screen-clear.html
> > 
> > By "this" you are talking about the proposed sledge-hammer way of faking
> > a vt220 terminal by moving and symlinking?  Clearly, no.
> 
> Indeed, and the comments to that blog are much more informative than the
> blog itself.
> 
> As the last comment points out, if you are on a Red-Hat-flavoured system
> then simply "export TERM=xterm1" will work.  Otherwise, the "right" way
> to go about this is to decompile the terminal description, edit it, and
> recompile, as noted in the penultimate comment.

Pretty much exactly, what I posted before. :)  Except for that TERM
value. Didn't check the behavior of "xterm1", but the known to exist
"linux" terminal works. The conclusion in either case is, to simply set
the variable as desired.


> Another way of disabling the alternate screen is to run "screen" inside
> every terminal.
> 
> Incidentally, I don't find the alternate screen annoying at all - in
> fact I miss it when it's not there.

Same for me. :)  I prefer the xterm style of not overwriting my
screen...

  guenther


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