Terminal window truncating output

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon Jan 26 18:52:15 CET 2015


On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:37:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:25:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:16:20 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:08:31 +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote:  
> > > > > $ ps ux | cat  
> > > > and ps uxww wrap both.  
> > > 
> > > But after shrinking a xfce4-terminal or roxterm window both
> > > terminal emulations hide ps output, neither cat nor ww does help
> > > on my machine.  
> > 
> > Oops, my bad, Roxterm does wrap when shrinking the window, just
> > Xfce4-terminal doesn't.
> 
> And Konsole fails too.

A last PS:

For xfce4-terminal and konsole there still is the "arrow-up"-key
followed by the "Enter/Return"-key workaround, assumed the command is
quick. But if a command, let's say "find" or a script needs 10 minutes,
this workaround is far from being satisfactory ;).


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