Odd terminal behavior: partial screen scrolling

[Phil Dobbin]

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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> My system is Ubuntu 11.04 with added xubuntu components, running xfce sessions.
> 
> Using gnome-terminal, ever since some updates a few days ago, normal
> command-line operations scroll only 30 lines even when the window is
> twice that high.  This leaves the top of the window blank; lines that
> would scroll up simply disappear.  Curses-based things like less(1)
> and vim(1) use the whole screen.
> 
> This seems very odd.  Since I'm temporarily in a kind of hybrid
> condition, I'm not sure I should file a bug or which distro to file it
> against. The system is odd but useable, so I'm just looking for fixes
> or (non-)confirmation.


Silly question, I know but you do have scrollback set to unlimited?

Cheers,

  Phil...

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