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I am logged in remotely to a CentOS 6.6 machine from a Mac with Yosemite running XQuartz 2.7.8. When I run xterm on my CentOS machine, I'm can only scroll back about 1200 lines. How do I increase this value?

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In the manual of xterm, you can find the description of the relevant option:

-sl number
This option specifies the number of lines  to  save  that  have
been scrolled  off the top of the screen.  This corresponds to the
saveLines resource.  The default is “64”.

So you can call

xterm -sl xxx

or create an alias

xterm='xterm -sl xxx'

or set saveLines in your (or the global) Xresources file.

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    A concrete Xresources example: add the line xterm*saveLines: 100000 to the ~/.Xresources file.
    – Mark
    Jun 30, 2020 at 14:23

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