Re: libVTE scrollback buffer written to disk, affecting gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and more.

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From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject	Re: libVTE scrollback buffer written to disk, affecting gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and more.
Date	Sat, 8 Mar 2014 10:14:02 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-03-08, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> Apologies if this was already reported on slashdot, but it's still an
> issue.  Title: Gnome terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and other
> libVTE based terminals write scrollback buffer data to /tmp filesystem

Yikes, first noticed in 2011, first reported in March 2012.  Two years
later, it hasn't been fixed.  That's slightly scary.

I use Terminology - it's a gorgeous terminal emulator.  I was surprised
to see it uses some of the same libraries as gnome-terminal.

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libVTE scrollback buffer written to disk, affecting gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and more. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-08 01:21 +0100
  Re: libVTE scrollback buffer written to disk, affecting gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and more. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-08 10:14 +0000

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