X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com connect(): No such file or directory From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Subject: Re: Resizing a terminal window Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:28:47 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4BE0903A.3030207@towo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) 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 Thomas Wolff writes: > 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 Sadly enough, the system I am connecting to, SUSE Linux, does use them, and the checkwinsize shopt BASH function, but, somehow, not correctly.... -- 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