Re: persistent xterm sessions

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Derek Martin wrote: 
> On my system, screen doesn't behave that way... 

I tried screen from within a classic xterm, enabled scrollback, and 
applied the resource setting: 

% xterm -sb -xrm XTerm.vt100.titeInhibit=true 

and xterm's scrollback buffer did continue working after running screen, 
but it only showed the current screen of terminal output. In other words: 

% cat bigfile 
% screen 
% ls -al bigdir 

shows 24 lines of the ls output proceeded by the tail of bigfile. Maybe 
I'm applying the resource setting incorrectly. 


> ...screen manages its own scrollback buffer... 

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but to use the keybindings instead of the GUI 
kind of defeats the purpose of using a GUI terminal emulator, which also 
provides visual feedback on your location within the scrollback buffer. 


> Gnome's terminal program does not, as far as I know, use X resources 
> at all.  There's probably a way to do it from gnome-term's 
> configuration menus... 

Not that I can see. 


> ...I don't use gnome-terminal -- strongly prefering the original 
> xterm... 

xterm brings me back to 1995 a little too much. :-) 

  -Tom 

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