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
+1. I'd even support unlimited scrollback by default.
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.
*** Bug 462556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+1; Please fix this. I am not sure if unlimited scrollback by default would be a good choice (some programs output a lot of data). From my perspective 10k is enough to view most common log files and program outputs without piping hassle (stdout, stderr, lost colors, etc).
Let's not be shy here; I suggest at least 100k lines. Assuming the width of 200 columns this would give 20M characters. I'm guessing most of them will be 1 byte resulting in about 20MB total which really is very small amount of data by today standards.
+1 Add two zeros to make it 100k