Re: [Materm-usage] mrxvt: unexpected scrolling behaviour

[Gautam I. <gi...@st...>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:18:30PM +0200, Hans-Ulrich Hohn wrote:

> I have a problem with the scrolling behaviour of mrxvt. It seems, that 
> the  [-si|+si] option (inhibit scrolling on tty output - 
> [scrollTtyOutputInhibit]) behavior is not what I expect.
> I have a fast growing logfile and want to inspect things with the `tail 
> -f logfile` command. When scrolling in mrxvt through the file  displayed 
> with the `tail -f` command, I want to stop at any position to have a 
> closer look. To suppress scrolling when new data arrives I configured 
> (and tried it to with the command-line options -si) mrxvt in the .mrxvt 
> dot-file with the Option:
> 
>     Mrxvt.scrollTtyOutputInhibit:   True
> 
> But when new data arrives, the screen scrolls down. For example if 3 new 
> lines where written to the logfile, mrxvt scrolls 3 lines down. With
> 
>     Mrxvt.scrollTtyOutputInhibit:   False
> 
> mrxvt scrolls down to the bottom of the logfile. It looks like mrxvt 
> fixes the DELTA increment between the actual scroll-position and the 
> BOTTOM of the output. What I want mrxvt to do is to fix the DELTA 
> increment between the actual scroll-position and the TOP of the output 
> (like kde konsole does).
> 
> "Mrxvt.scrollbarAlign: top" seems to have no influence on solving the 
> problem.
> 
> In other words: What i want is a "frozen" display, while scrolling
> through a growing output in mrxvt and only updatet output while beeing
> at the bottom with the scrollbar.

Just upgrade to 0.5.4 or later. This has been fixed there,

GI

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