Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curious! I haven't had xterm installed now for some time, so I'm going > from memory. Main reason I chose aterm was for the smaller footprint. > At the moment I have 2 aterms running that would suggest more than > scrollback buffer size are factors in RSS:
right - there are several factors (some are easy to reproduce, others may for instance depend on the history of the process). fwiw, I was also running xterm compiled for the toolbar, so that would increase xterm's runtime by some amount. > $ ps aux |grep aterm > ralph 2899 0.0 0.9 5956 2360 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm > -tn xterm -sl 5000 -geometry +0-25 > ralph 2900 0.0 0.9 5956 2412 ? S 08:05 0:00 aterm > -tr -trsb -rv -sl 100 -sh 95 -geometry +700-350 -e tail -f /var/log/auth.log > ralph 3064 0.0 0.2 1956 640 pts/1 R+ 08:10 0:00 grep aterm > $ > Anyway, this is OT (my fault), so did aterm solve your original question > about leaving output from 'less' onscreen after exiting? ...not _my_ original question (the OP's question was answered in effect by noting that it's a detail of the terminal description rather than the terminal emulator). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
