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Bug 624195 - Scrollback length should be MUCH longer
Scrollback length should be MUCH longer
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: Profiles
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-12 20:01 UTC by Mike
Modified: 2012-12-16 13:46 UTC
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Description Mike 2010-07-12 20:01:02 UTC
Having just lost some important scrollback, I thought I'd file a bug suggesting that we make the default scrollback length much longer.

I don't know the default (because I just changed it), but relative to the RAM I have on my machine, it's completely negligible. I see two options:
1. Set the scrollback size relative to the available ram on a machine, with an upper cap. So, if I have 128MB RAM, my scrollback is maybe 500 lines. If I have 1GB ram, it's maybe 10,000 lines. If I have 16GB ram, it's still 10,000.
2. Just bump the number up to around 10,000, and consider that a fix.

I imagine this could also be a way that Ubuntu packages it..if so, I'll refile there.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2010-07-12 20:17:42 UTC
I guess we could increase the default. Behdad?
Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-07-14 18:19:00 UTC
Yes, let's increase it to 10,000.
Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-07-14 18:19:25 UTC
We should change the default in vte too, not g-t only.
Comment 4 Dmytro Taranovsky 2012-03-26 18:33:07 UTC
This bug is still present in gnome-terminal 3.2.1 (scrollback defaults to 512 lines).
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2012-12-16 13:46:59 UTC
Fixed on master, increased the default value to 8192 .