Bug 465580 - Raise scrollback limit substantially
Summary: Raise scrollback limit substantially
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: history (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
URL:
Keywords: usability
: 462556 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-02-11 11:26 UTC by Harald Sitter
Modified: 2024-03-23 10:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Harald Sitter 2023-02-11 11:26:18 UTC
SUMMARY
A scroll back limit of 1000 lines is way too low for a default. Everyone I've whined to over the years agreed that the limit is too low and said to just set it to unlimited or raise it substantially. Let's do this globally. There is no practical reason I can think of why we'd have a limit this low. It only ever takes minutes to find a command with output that doesn't even fit inside the limit.

I propose we raise the limit to 1,000,000 and see how that goes.

An argument might even be made that unlimited is the way to go. It's kinda unexpected that output "randomly" disappears.
It may also make sense to equip konsole with kuserfeedback to get a sense of what configuration values get changed a lot.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. run pw-dump

OBSERVED RESULT
half the output is not there

EXPECTED RESULT
a reasonable amount of output fits in the history

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-58-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31,3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-02-12 18:01:18 UTC
+1. I'd even support unlimited scrollback by default.
Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2023-04-28 22:08:54 UTC
If I recall, ages ago we were worried about the unlimited causing disk space issues.  I  guess we could assume that people have very large disks.
Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2024-03-23 02:58:22 UTC
*** Bug 462556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***