X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BE0903A.3030207@towo.net> Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 23:23:06 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Resizing a terminal window References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Am 04.05.2010 16:03, schrieb J. David Boyd: > ... > > Locally, I can use the mouse to resize a window, and the $COLUMNS and > $LINES variables are automatically filled in. > > On many remote xterm sessions, they aren't. > > Does anyone have any idea where to start figuring out what is wrong, and > what I can do to correct it? > LINES and COLUMNS are legacy mechanisms which may serve as a workaround if the system doesn't otherwise handle screen size changes properly. They should not be needed on modern systems where the tty driver maintains the information. (You may note that mintty has not set them initially but they get set on resize - by whatever means... - while in a cygwin console they are not used at all.) So if you happen to have these variables set on a system which does not maintain them, they don't get changed on resize and confuse your environment. In most cases the best remedy is to just unset them - does that help? ------ Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple