Scrollback going away in lxterminal

Does Shift+Pgup work?

No, it just echoes ;2~ Hitting [enter] returns

ISTR that scrollback turned off while running top on the FreeBSD host, but scrollback resumed when top exited (until it didn't anymore). Now scrollback is off, the thumb fills the slidebar permanently.

I see under Edit > Preferences > Display an option to hide scrroll bar, but toggling that seems to do nothing.

Thanks for writing, any further suggestions welcome!

bob prohaska

Try the reset command. This can happen if a program which does curses output such as an editor is killed without restoring the terminal state correctly.

---druck

That makes considerable sense, I think the problem appears when an lxterminal session running top on the remote host exits ungracefully. But:

I can find a "reset zoom" command in lxterminal, but the man page does not contain the word "reset". Nor does top's man page.

Is "reset zoom" what you're suggesting? For the moment I'm not seeing the problem, so it's hard to experiment. If by reset you mean kill the tab and re-open it, yes, that works...

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

I'm not the one who suggested it, but I have used on occasion I have used a "/usr/bin/reset" command. It's likely that's what the original suggester meant. Also useful are "stty sane" and "tset".

HTH

Ahh, thank you! I wasn't aware of it. Unfortunately it appears that if an interesting scrollback buffer has accumulated, the buffer is lost when reset is invoked, or maybe it's already lost when top exits.

For now it appears best to run top in a separate tab.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

Sorry, didn't occur to me you might not have the reset command installed. Try:-

sudo apt install ncurses-bin man reset

---druck