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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon zzrough

Unable to scroll up during output

Open ukch opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

With most terminal emulators I have used (e.g. GNOME terminal), when running a program that outputs to the terminal, it is possible to scroll up to view previous output without fresh output causing the scroll to return to the bottom. With the drop-down terminal this is not possible.

To reproduce:

  • Run a program that generates lots of output (e.g. tail -f /var/log/syslog)
  • Scroll up

Expected situation: it should be possible to read the previous output without being interrupted any time new output is generated.

ukch avatar Jul 19 '16 13:07 ukch

Interesting, I've been bothered myself by this behavior. I should have a look at gnome-terminal to see how this is handled.

zzrough avatar Aug 17 '16 20:08 zzrough

  • When the terminal is completely scrolled down: Autoscroll is enabled
  • When the terminal is not completely scrolled down: Autoscroll is disabled.

This has to be checked before appending any new output, so you'd have to:

  • Check the above condition
  • Change text
  • If the condition was true, scroll.

timoschwarzer avatar Feb 08 '17 18:02 timoschwarzer

Bug #181 seems to be a duplicate of this bug.

tengwar avatar Nov 21 '17 20:11 tengwar