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Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
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scrollback_lines not honored? #726

Closed Dieterbe closed 4 years ago

Dieterbe commented 4 years ago

the config says.

# Length of the scrollback buffer, 0 disabled the scrollback buffer
# and setting it to a negative value means "infinite scrollback"
scrollback_lines = 10000

I've tried both 0 and -1, but they seem to behave the same. i can't scroll back as far as i want. when I test using for i in {1..1000}; do echo $i; done, i can scroll back to line 490, not further (higher) than that. am i missing something? thanks! I'm using v15.

BarbUk commented 4 years ago

scrollback_lines = -1 is working correctly on termite v15 with my config. Did you test in a new term to reload the config file ?

Dieterbe commented 4 years ago

oh. I missed that have to create a section [options]. once i did that. it works well. i can run for i in {1..100000}; do echo $i; done now and scroll all the way back :) fantastic.

this also makes the difference between 0 and -1 very clear. with 0 there is no scrolling possible at all.

thanks for your help @BarbUk , have a nice day!

adrian5 commented 3 years ago

I assumed the config was showing compiled-in default values (common convention). In some cases—where termite cannot assume authority in the terminal pipeline—omission may be a sensible default, but I certainly was confused by this choice; the 10000 is an arbitrary example in this case, not the default value.