Screen buffer

Tim Potter tpot at valinux.com
Wed Aug 1 16:50:13 EST 2001


Matthew Hawkins writes:

> > Can the buffer be retined when switching from one tty to another (alt+
> > Fn)?
> 
> Not easily.  It's tricky because you have to mess around with buffers,
> remembering which terminals are which buffers and writing in the

I always thought this would be a funky kernel patch to make.  I'm
always switching VC's and losing scrollback information which can
be very annoying.


Tim.




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