gnome terminal history [was Re: WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4]

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:33 PM -0400 7/14/05, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:09, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:25:14AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> >Right click, pick "Edit Current Profile", choose the tab
>>> > "Scrolling", increase the Scrollback number, press Close.
>>>
>>> While it may work (I haven't tried it, the system is currently DOA
>>> again because yum died in mid-session) why is it so hidden?  kde's
>>> terminals have it right out front as 'history', with an
>>> auto-inc-dec, or you can type into it, scrollbox to set the number
>>> of lines.
>>
>>Why do you say that it's hidden? It's a completely obvious
>> preference. (The "Right click" thing is only because I'm not sure
>> if you've hidden the menu bar or not -- if the menu bar is
>> visibile, instead of right click, look on the edit menu.)
>>
>Which doesn't seem to be visible for a non-root user.

The terminal menu bar is visible by default.  Feel free to enable it in
terminal's preferences (that right-click thing again).
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