Sindhu S
sindhus@live.in 2013
Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3756@gmail.com 2013
Set scroll output and scrollbar behaviour.
Fran Dieguez
frandieguez@gnome.org 2013.
Leandro Regueiro
leandro.regueiro@gmail.com 2011.

# Scrollbar preferences

A scrollbar is a part of the graphical user interface (GUI) which allows anything continuous and exceeding the visible screen space such as text to be viewable by the user by scrolling down to the parts hidden from current view.

# Visibilidade da barra de desprazamento

You can set the location of the scrollbar, or disable it, in Terminal:

Select Edit Profile Preferences Scrolling.

You can choose from the following options:

Always visible: Scrollbar is visible at all times.

Visible only when necessary: Scrollbar is visible only when terminal output exceeds the length of Terminal window size.

Hidden: Scrollbar is always hidden from view.

Your preference is saved immediately. Click Close to return to Terminal.

# Scrollback lines

Scrollback lines indicate the number of Terminal output lines stored in memory for scrolling.

Select Edit Profile Preferences Scrolling.

In the input box next to Scrollback, input a number greater than 0 to set the number of scrollback lines.

Optionally, you can click on + to increase and - to decrease lines.

To have unlimited scrollback lines, check Unlimited as your option.

Unlimited scrollback lines could potentially overburden your computer's memory and make Terminal sluggish during scrolling!

# Scroll on output

Terminal can automatically scroll down to the latest output as a command executes.

Go to Edit Profile Preferences Scrolling.

Select Scroll on output.

# Scroll on keystroke

Scroll on keystroke, when enabled allows the Terminal to scroll down to prompt, on press of any key that can be an input to prompt, such as an alphabet, numbers, tab key etc.

Go to Edit Profile Preferences Scrolling.

Select Scroll on keystroke.