Bug 165490

Summary:	smooth (slow) text scrolling option for non-interactive terminals
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	ixi <q355caea47>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee
Priority:	LO
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ixi 2008-07-01 16:09:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
OS:                Linux

some terminals (programs running on terminals) do not require interactivity - their purpose is to show information on screen. it is more important that the text is legible than to show it as-soon-as-possible in bunches of flooding text. it would be nice if the scrolling speed could be adjusted, storing everything on a buffer first and printing on screen with a nice fixed-speed scrolling effect (ideally you could scroll with the arrow keys -instead of shift page-up/page-down and play-pause keys would be nice too)

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2008-07-01 22:38:12 UTC

> some terminals (programs running on terminals) do not require
> interactivity - their purpose is to show information on screen.

I understand what you are after but I think the terminal emulator is perhaps not the best place to implement this.  More useful would be a program like 'cat' which can be used in a command pipe that buffers its input and then prints it out at a steady rate.

Comment 2 Matthew Woehlke 2008-07-10 01:23:01 UTC

If you set the history size to unlimited, you can "pause" by scrolling up, and shift-up/down already work. That seems to leave only slow scrolling w/o needing to hold down an arrow key. (Also, 'less' can do much of this as well.)

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-10-31 12:05:19 UTC

I don't think emulator is the right place to do this.