Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent >terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here >to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a secret >environment variable/config file?
If you start the terminal from a window manager menu entry, you should be able to configure the window manager to automatically start it with command-line arguments like "-sl 1000", which gives 1000 lines of scrollback (for at least xterm and rxvt). For example, this is from my ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook: + "%mini.xterm.xpm%xterm 80x58" \ Exec xterm -geometry 80x58-0-0 -sb -sl 1000 -ls If you can't give command-line arguments automatically, the default number of lines can usually be set in a resource. From what I gather of the manual pages, including the following line in your ~/.Xresources file should work for both xterm and rxvt: XTerm*saveLines: 1000 See "man X" for details on X resources in general. -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
