Version: 1.6.5 (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (edgy) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.17-11-generic Konsole doesn't allow user to inhibit ti/te terminfo actions. For quick and visual description of a problem (which appears also in gnome-terminal) visit this url: http://fixlog.blogspot.com/2006/09/stop-gnome-terminal-screen-clear.html For detailed description: ti/te are capabilities of terminal that allow application to switch to 'alternate screen'. With this in effect, "previous" view of the terminal window is restored upon exiting less, man, vim, and many other programs. Xterm allowed user to disable this behaviour. Without this 'alternate screen', one was able to quickly view the file, scroll to some arbitrary view, quit less, and input commands using information from output of less command. Without possibility of inhibiting ti/te capabilities, terminal becomes a bit crippled for some users. I'd like konsole devs to reconsider adding such option as 'titeInhibit'. TIA, KT.
If you use the "Linux Console" session type, man vim and less will exhibit the behaviour you after. To start a new Linux Console session, go to Session -> New Linux Console If you want to modify the other sessions to behave like this, go to Settings -> Configure Konsole -> Session tab. Select the session type you are interested in ( "Shell" is the default ) and in the Properties section, set the "TERM" value to "linux" and click Apply. You can get the same effect in most terminal programs by setting the TERM environment variable to "linux" and starting a new shell: eg in gnome-terminal: export TERM=linux bash man <some program> An unfortunate side-effect is that the mouse is not enabled in Vim when TERM=linux.
On 20 Mar 2007 13:47:49 -0000, Robert Knight <robertknight@gmail.com> wrote: > If you use the "Linux Console" session type, man vim > and less will exhibit the behaviour you after. Yup, that's one way of solving it :) But as you said, it removes mouse support... so it would be best to have an option for it in Konsole. For the time being, I solved my problem by recompiling 'xterm' terminal description. KT.
I'm still missing this feature in Konsole 20.04.1. Unfortunately, the workaround from comment 1 does not seem to be available any more.
To clarify, I can't find any "Sessions" tab in the settings. Using "linux" as "TERM" still works, but with it's drawbacks.
More workarounds: With `less` you can use -X: export LESS=$LESS-X see the man page for details. For vim: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/term.html https://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html