Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 1:04 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Been using Console for the last few weeks. Works fine for my use case and I cannot see anything majorly wrong with it.

At least one of the features that is being asked for (infinite scrollback, which already works if number of scrollback lines is set to -1 with dconf) is a road to an easy DoS, should the user accidentally push too much to stdout.

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 15, 2023 13:17 UTC (Mon) by jafd (subscriber, #129642) [Link]

I had glitchy tabs in Console and it really liked to segfault on me randomly, so that was the end of it. I mean, some advanced stuff may be lacking, but this is a terminal emulator.

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted Jul 4, 2023 15:22 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's not a road to a DoS -- vte has handled infinite scrollback properly for many years. The scrollback is encrypted, compressed and written to an unlinked file in /tmp. If /tmp fills up, it's truncated. No DoS (though running out of space in /tmp for a second or two might be noticeable).