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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 75

xfce4-terminal line wrap

is there a way to disable the line wrap when either resizing window or for long output and instead have a horizontal scroll bar?

ToZ

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Re: xfce4-terminal line wrap

xfce4-terminal isn't able to do that natively, but you could use "less -S" and pipe your output to less (it supports horizontal scrolling).
For example (make the terminal window small to test):

ls -l $HOME | less -S

There is some more information here about using setterm to disable line wrapping (though you can't horizontally scroll).

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callmejoe

Member

Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 75

Re: xfce4-terminal line wrap

xfce4-terminal isn't able to do that natively, but you could use "less -S" and pipe your output to less (it supports horizontal scrolling).
For example (make the terminal window small to test):

ls -l $HOME | less -S

There is some more information here about using setterm to disable line wrapping (though you can't horizontally scroll).

thanks for the reply