On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:16:57 +0100 LuxGiammi <luxgiammi+suckl...@posteo.net> wrote:
Dear Luxgiammi, > It's my first message in this mailing list. > I've been using st for more than one year and I've always had the > intention to ask this. I know that there must be a way to solve the > problem (in fact, I started to study X programming in my - little - > spare time just for this reason), but as for now, I'm quite stuck. I > regularly use a window manager (I started with i3, but now I'm > happily using dwm) and it's not so uncommon that I need more than one > terminal on the screen. The problem is, however, that whenever I > spawn more terminals, depending, of course, on the WM layout, the > overflowing text of shrunk terminals gets cut and therefore > permanently lost. For the "Y axis" text I simply installed the > scrollback patch, but for the "X axis" text, apparently, there are no > patches. > > So my questions for you are: > 1. Has this problem previously discussed? If so, what were the > outcomes of the discussion? > 2. I haven't found one yet on the website, but is there a patch that > solves this problem? > > Thanks in advance. thanks for your mail and reaching out! This is a philosophical question, and I agree with you in fixing this in st, others don't (with good reasons on both sides). Especially in the context of dwm I'm often annoyed when the text is cut off. To keep things simple, a project called scroll[0] was started to provide a scrollback buffer and line-retainment in st. Try it out, it might suit your needs! With best regards Laslo [0]:https://git.suckless.org/scroll/
