[Konsole-devel] [Bug 48485] usability: enable Xon/Xoff flowcontrol for konsole by default

Robert Knight robertknight at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 22:34:05 UTC 2006


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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2006-08-03 00:34 -------
Having the terminal suddenly freeze with no indication of what is happening when Ctrl+S is pressed would definitely surprise me - because I until I read this report, I had no idea what flow control is.

Can someone explain why flow control might be useful in a modern environment?

One option might be to enable flow control by default, but display a warning status-message at the top of the terminal widget which includes the keypress needed to deactivate it.

eg.  A FireFox-style yellow warning bar containing the text: "Terminal output was suspended by pressing Ctrl+S.  Press Ctrl+Q to resume output."

Since Ctrl+S / Ctrl+Q is reserved for this in most terminals, it would probably be safe to remove it as an option in Konqueror if it was decided to disable it by default.



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