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Bug 626747 - under View gnome-terminal should offer a readonly tickbox
under View gnome-terminal should offer a readonly tickbox
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on: 687118
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-12 16:05 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2014-04-18 09:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2010-08-12 16:05:15 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/609095

"Whenever I run a process in the terminal that takes a long time to complete, I fear I may inadvertently hit some key (e.g., CTRL-C...) that may harm/kill the process. I know there are workarounds, but I just thought it would be so convenient to have
a view-only or read-only option in the View menu (in the same philosophy as the the same option in the remote desktop viewer)"

Thanks,
Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2013-09-09 19:43:34 UTC 
Another use case: I am watching an an IRC conversation in the background, and don't want to accidentally type in that window. It'd be great to be able to mark that terminal as view-only. (Possibly the window could become slightly gray as an indicator?