Terminal buffer increase

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi ALL,
I'm about to start a big system update. This big emerge will produce a lot of post-emerge messages which will unfortunately disappear because I have a default buffer size of my GNOME Terminal.

Is there a way to check how big it is and increase it?

Than you

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:34 pm Post subject:

And read them from /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

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Which terminal do you use?
Increasing the buffer means increasing the amount of ram it uses and it is easy that with many terminals in use increases a lot.
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ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi,
I use default GNOME Terminal
And I presume I can just delete that file and it will be re-created? Or I can bring the size of it to 0?

Thank you.

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:10 pm Post subject:

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi,,
So how do you sort the old messages from new?

Thank you.

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:28 pm Post subject:

Logicien · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:08 pm Post subject:

I see nothing in gnome-terminal who allow the user to set the messages buffer size. urxvt and xterm have options for it. In the Linux terminals the buffer size can be set with the kernel boot parameter fbcon=scrollback:2048k or more.
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