Security issue in Terminal

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 03/07/2012 04:57 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2012-03-07 at 13:43 -0500, Brian Waters wrote:
>>
>> A nice way that VTE could handle this would be to have a configure
>> option for that behavior, which could be added to our terminal and
>> others. Whether or not that makes sense given the way scrollback is
>> implemented, I don't know. We'll see! 
> 
> Nobody forces you to have scrollback buffer at all, just set it to 0.
> 

What about using screen within the terminal emulator? Maybe I'm being
naive, but I figured doing that gives me that advantage of things I like
about the terminal emulator (transparency, font selection, colors, etc.)
without using the scrollback buffer. Am I doing it right?