On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:28:19PM +0100, Manuel Schölling wrote:

Hi Andrey,

Adam already discussed some of your notes, but I want to catch up one
this one:

On So, 2016-11-27 at 21:37 +0000, Andrey Utkin wrote:

quoted

I see the user experience is subpar to what I'm accustomed to (I use
Konsole and "Clear Scrollback and Reset" action, default shortcut is
Ctrl+Shift+K). The strange behaviour moments have nothing to do with
current patchset but are properties of vgacon, though. (I compared it
with another PC which runs without this patchset, and it looks like it
runs vgacon, too, however, I'm not sure how to ensure this at runtime.)

I'm not sure what you mean with 'subpar'. Ctrl+Shift+K would probably be
nice - but it might interfere with some shortcuts of programs.
Are you missing any other features?
(I am working on persistent scrollback for framebuffer consoles in the
mean time...)

I meant that in my terminal of choice, I have single action which does
both of these things at same time:
 - scrollback cleaning (also not leaving screen worth of emptiness in
   scrollback)
 - prompt positioning to top line

That's all. I don't appeal to bring Ctrl+Shift+K hotkey or whatever
else.

Since these cosmetic matters are inherent to vgacon I'm fine with it.

Regarding logout scrollback clearing not working for me. ncurses-6.0-rc1
which I tested it with is the latest available in Gentoo portage, please
confirm whether I need any newer version, or should I tune something
else. I'd appreciate if you also tested your patch with gentoo setup.