problem resizing tunneled xterm

Kris Thielemans kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk
Sat May 15 21:45:00 GMT 2004


Hi Thomas,

Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just
a local terminal.

However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help!

Kris

> >
> > I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP 
> SP1 machine 
> > running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The 
> funny thing 
> > is that it happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in 
> > others... In fact, I don't think I resized that xterm yet 
> (started it 
> > with xterm -ls -sl 3000 -sb by the way).
> 
> That sounds like permissions: signals don't generally 
> propagate across su and other things that change the 
> ownership of the terminal.  You can usually work around those 
> by running resize (which uses escape sequences to find the 
> actual size of the xterm, and does the equivalent of an stty 
> to update your local terminal-size values).
> 



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