Terminal window truncating output

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/24/2015 10:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:11:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Perhaps I am spoiled from gnome terminal wrapping text be default....
> That's strange, since xfce4-terminal does auto-wrap lines by default on
> my machine. However, if you prefer gnome-terminal, you can use it on
> Xfce4. IMO the best terminal emulation is roxterm, that's what I'm
> most of the times using whatever DE/WM I run.
>
> When the lines aren't wrapped, isn't there a horizontal scroll bar?

[rgm at lx120e ~]$ host 50.253.254.4
4.254.253.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 
50-253-254-4-static.hfc.comcastbu.
[rgm at lx120e ~]$ host 2601:4:2001:7300:67:15ff:fe00:4
Host 
4.0.0.0.0.0.e.f.f.f.5.1.7.6.0.0.0.0.3.7.1.0.0.2.4.0.0.0.1.0.6.2.ip6.arpa n)

And no horizontal scroll bar.  I'd rather NOT run gnome terminal, as 
xfce SEEMS to have a perfectily reasonable terminal.