How to set Unlimited scrollback for xfce4-terminal?

Question

Considering xubuntu 13.04 (based on xfce4.10 distribution), How to set Unlimited scrollback for xfce4-terminal?

Angadresma

Answer 1

xubuntu 13.04 (based on xfce4.10 distribution) did not yet support unlimited scrolling for xfce4-terminal, How ever, in xfce4-terminal -> edit -> preferences -> Scrollback can be set to max value of 1048576.

Angadresma

In September 2015, with xfce4-terminal 0.6.3, the max value is 5242880. – Nucleate

@Nucleate 1048576 appears to still be the maximum in 0.6.3 – Pincenez

Answer 2

Just to clarify AvindraGoolcharan's comment, in newer versions of the xfce4-terminal, unlimited scrollback is possible. For versions 0.8.0 and above, there is a built in option to enable it.

Unfortunately, all versions of xfce4-terminal >= 0.8.0 require some version of gtk-3.0 (at a minimum, version 3.14), which is not available for 13.04. vte-2.91 is also required, which again is not available for 13.04.

For those who do have a version of xfce4-terminal that's 0.8.0 or newer, according to the XFCE docs, in Edit>Preferences, you check the unlimited scrollback box.

Or as @AvindraGoolcharan suggested, you can append ~/.config/xfce/terminal/terminalrc with the line ScrollingUnlimited=TRUE

I found an example of an xfce4-terminal config file that has the unlimited scrollback option added in GitHub user eltonvs's dotfiles.

Furtherance

Answer 3

For clarification. xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 settings allows to enter scrollback value 5242880, but the maximum is still set to 1048576.

$ grep ScrollingLines ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
ScrollingLines=1048576

Charlena

I have 0.8.1 and can use the ScrollingUnlimited=TRUE setting – Asocial