[SOLVED] MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

[Danilo Turina]

Hey!! I didn't notice it immediately, but now the problem has 
disappeared (maybe because the new xterm-185?): speed is now 38400 as it 
should be.

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In effect opening an xterm within rootless mode I can see from stty that
>>>the terminal speed is 38400, while opening the same terminal from
>>>multiwindow mode I see that the speed is 0 (the same does not happens
>>>for rxvt for which stty always reports 38400).
>>
>>I've started bash the following ways:
>>
>>cmd.exe  : speed 38400
>>  -> xterm.exe : speed 38400
>>    -> xterm.exe : speed 38400
>>XWin.exe (multiwindow)
>>  -> xterm.exe : speed 0
>>XWin.exe (no multiwindow)
>>  -> xterm.exe : speed 0
>>    -> xterm.exe : speed 0
>>XWin.exe (build with console window)
>>  -> xterm.exe : speed 0
>>
>>It seems the newly started xterm inherits the speed settings from the starting
>>program.
> 
> 
> not exactly (I've rebooted to test cygwin, see that BAUD_0 isn't defined).
> I think the issue is that the ioctl to set the baud rate fails.  It
> doesn't "inherit" the speed settings, since xterm "always" sets it. Seeing
> why it works for rxvt would be useful, for instance.
> 
> Baud rate for a terminal emulator is bogus anyway - the reason why it is
> set is to give ncurses a hint about padding.  I changed it from 9600 to
> 38400 a few years ago, and rxvt followed suit.
> 
> 
>>The only solution seems to start the xterms from a windows console.
> 
> 
> for now, true.
> 


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