[TriLUG] xterm scrollback won't stick

[sholton at mindspring.com]

This is an xterm option.  Try

  xterm -si

       -si     This option indicates  that  output  to  a  window
               should  not automatically reposition the screen to
               the bottom of the scrolling region.   This  option
               can  be  turned on and off from the ``VT Options''
               menu.

       +si     This option indicates  that  output  to  a  window
               should cause it to scroll to the bottom.

For a quick&dirty (in case you forgot to set this when you started
the xterm) you should also be able to use CTRL-S to stop the 
terminal output and CTRL-Q to restart it again, at least in cases
where you're using a legacy TTY terminal driver...


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Mueller <linux-support at earthlink.net>
Sent: Oct 10, 2003 2:43 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] xterm scrollback won't stick

When I "tail -f /var/log/messages" on an xterm, and I scrollback to look at 
something, the display jumps back to the most recent output whenever 
something new gets sent to the xterm.

In the past I used konsole (the KDE terminal emulator) and scrolling back was 
"sticky" - when you scrolled back to something, the display stayed there 
regardless of new stuff coming out.

I read "man xterm" and could find a commandline option for controlling this 
behavior.  Can anybody give me hint here?  Is it possible the behavior is a 
feature of konsole but not xterm?

TIA,
-- 
Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
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Steve Holton
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