From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 12 20:18:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D13115047 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 20:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14080; Wed, 12 May 1999 20:24:03 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:24:03 -0700 (PDT) From: To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip In-Reply-To: <19990511174653.A231@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 01:51:23PM -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > > Or put 'clear' in your .logout script. > Yes, but that will clear the screen every time, not only when you want. > > If you hit scroll-lock and hit > > page up, won't that show you what you were doing? > OK, so it won't clear all traces (I just checked, you're right). But it will > still leave the screen clean. I like doing that, not so much to cover up I was > there, but rather when I want to start the next logon with a clean screen. It > helps me keep the screen organized better. If you do want to clear your tracks a little more, switching to a different vconsole and back should do the trick. > > Or is that just a Linux trait? > Actually, I once suggested to a Linux user to hit scroll lock and use the page > up key. He told me it does not work that way under Linux - it just freezes the > screen. Under Linux, it's shift-pgup and shift-pgdn > BTW, did you notice the pause key has the same effect as scroll lock? Although, > it may depend on whichever key map you are using. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message