At 1:17 PM -0600 1/24/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> >> The text consoles don't have any scrollback of their own. Neither does >> bash -- the default gnome-terminal provides scrollback. >> >One small exception - the VT (Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F6) have a >scrollback as long as you are at that console. You lose it when >you change to another console, or back to X. (Try Shift-Page Up). >This also works in xterm, and most other X terminal programs. The >difference is that X terms don't lose the scrollback buffer when >you change to another windows. Hmm, thanks. The console man pages seem to be lacking in info (man 4 console isn't even installed, but pretty short IAC). Seems that screen would still be the way to go. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
