Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to increase buffer size (xterm)?

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to increase buffer size (xterm)?
# 1  
Old 12-05-2012
How to increase buffer size (xterm)?
Hello,
I would like to increase the size of my buffer in my xterm window. My shell is bash and my home directory is auto mounted. I'm on Solaris 10, RHEL 5 and SLES 11 servers. Do you know where I can do this?
# 2  
Old 12-05-2012
Are you referring to -sl option, this option specifies the number of lines to save that have been scrolled off the top of the screen?

Check the manual here
This User Gave Thanks to Yoda For This Post:
bitlord
# 3  
Old 12-05-2012
Yes that is what I think I want. See we just rebuilt our Solaris server and this is our main admin server. With the old server we all used terminal but with this new setup where using xterm. Thank you for providing me with the man page. There was no man page on xterm on my serves.

Is there a file I could edit istead of doing a the command below?
Code:
xterm -sl 100 &

Last edited by bitlord; 12-05-2012 at 12:52 PM..
# 4  
Old 12-05-2012
You can save your setting in .Xdefaults located in your home directory. If it is not present, then I guess you have to create one.
Code:
xterm*saveLines::        100

Note: If double colon is giving error, replace it with single colon.
This User Gave Thanks to Yoda For This Post:
bitlord
# 5  
Old 12-05-2012
Yeah was looking for the .Xdefaults file. I don't have one. I will create one and put the line from your example.
Thank you.
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Programming

[c] How to calculate size of the file from size of the buffer?

Hi, Can I find size of the file from size of the buffer written? nbECRITS = fwrite(strstr(data->buffer, ";") + 1, sizeof(char), (data->buffsize) - LEN_NOM_FIC, fic_sortie); Thank You :) (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ezee
1 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Decrease buffer size

Hi, I am using the below command to get the output in a file called "Logs.txt" tail -f filename | egrep -i "cpu | hung " >> Logs.txt The problem is the Logs.txt file gets updated only after the buffer is 8Kb, but i want to update the file immediately and not wait for the buffer to get 8kb. Is... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: @bhi
8 Replies

3. Linux

xterm font size and utf8

Hi everyone! I want to change the default font size of xterm. I tried appending the following line in .Xresources xterm -fn -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* The size changes, but when I try to write in greek, nothing is printed on the screen. I tried appending a similar line to... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: kerb41
0 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Increase the buffer size to read lengthy lines

Hi All, I am trying to read output from a command. The output format is as follows: Thursday 13 Mar 2008 Information This is sample text Friday 14 Mar 2008 Warning This is one more sample text First line contains informtation (date etc) and the 2nd line contains some information. ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ssunda6
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Expect buffer size increase, please help

Hi Group, I am struggling to increase buffer size of expect, sometimes after increasing the buffer size, expect captures all my expected output, sometimes not, :-( I tried match_max 700000 set expect_out(buffer) {} Could anybody guide me for any solution. HTH,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jaduks
1 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to increase size of the console screen buffer ?

Its difficult to explain what I am exactly looking for, so let me try with an example.. Suppose my program prints out thousands lines. But once my program ends.. I am not able to scroll up and see all the 1000 lines. The size of the screen buffer is obviously limited. Is there anyway I can... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: the_learner
5 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to increase buffer size in Unix

The "top" command shows that my buffer size is always at 137M, which I think has reached to the maximum. However, Ido have lots of Inative memory? Is it possible to increae the buffer size? and what is the command for that? Further, this is the buffer for writing to the hard disk? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ziabegg
3 Replies

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How to increase the buffer size in Unix

When I checked with top command, I found tht my buffers are always 137M, which means that they are sort of overloaded. My Inactive memory is 520M. Is it possible to increaase the buffer size and what would be the command for that? (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: ziabegg
0 Replies

9. Red Hat

buffer cache size

hi everyone, can any one help change the buffer cache size in redhat and suse?? this error i got when i installed oracle 10g and it went well and when i try to mount the database using startup cmd it says too many buffer cache parameters (error code : ora-1034) thnq in advance (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: gsr_kashyap
0 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

changing size of text at xterm

hi all, i log into an xterm with bash shell but the character size of the xterm shell is too small. how can i enlarge the size of text on this xterm bash shell? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: armen
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question