On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 06:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Steve Expand the Xterm or Konsole or whatever other terminal you are using this is NOT new has been going on since 10.3 if your terminal window is too narrow .
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