reset command in FC2
David L Norris
dave at webaugur.com
Mon Aug 23 07:06:51 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:21 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I installed FC2 for the first time today. I had been using FC1 and
> enjoying it until things started messing up and performing operations as
> root kept causing the PC to freeze up.
Performing operations as root often does.
> I have a question: The 'reset' command in FC1 completely cleared the
> terminal window and gave a fresh shell prompt.
Yes, it did... Although I'm not sure that is the correct behavior.
> I liked this because I am a programmer I often get lots
> of errors when I try to compile a program. Using reset in FC1 allowed
> me to be sure that I was only seeing the errors from the most recent
> compile attempt. However, in FC2 typing gives a prompt at the top of
> the terminal window, but does not clear the screen nor the terminal
> buffer
Are you using gnome-terminal? Terminal menu -> Reset and Clear item
Or, you can copy your old terminfo from FC1 /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
into the ~/.terminfo/x/ directory. But it may cause other things to
malfunction. I haven't a clue.
--
David Norris
http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
ICQ - 412039
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