X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:47:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: LINES and COLUMNS not getting updated Message-ID: <20060531154754.GE23466@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com References: <002701c684bb$9a790110$be32000a AT idirect DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002701c684bb$9a790110$be32000a@idirect.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:07:48AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: >In my Cygwin X-Windows xterm environment, I'm not seeing the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables getting updated correctly after my window is resized. Furthermore, "echo $COLUMNS" and "printenv COLUMNS" don't agree. (I didn't see relevant articles in the archives.) > >It seems to start off working as expected, but soon fails. What seems to work reliably is the following sequence in a new login shell: >1) export COLUMNS=80 >2) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows 80 >3) # resize xterm window width >4) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows new width > >Two interesting repeatable anomalies: >1) If I omit step 2, the last step reports 80, regardless of the window width; and >2) "echo $COLUMNS" always reports 80, regardless of what printenv reports. >Also, printenv seems frequently to get stuck at the value 94, regardless of the actual width. This and many other anomalies don't seem to be repeatable. >I observe LINES behaving similarly to COLUMNS. > >FWIW, I???m using: >Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 >Cygwin DLL version 1.5.19 >xterm 6.8.2.0(202-1) >xorg-x11-* 6.8.2.0-x >bash 3.1-17(6) >I'm starting my bash session within an xterm window with "xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l" from a standard startxwin.bat and TERM=xterm. Please go back and read http://cygwin.com/lists.html . This question is not appropriate for the general cygwin list. This message belongs on the cygwin-xfree list - a list that the xterm maintainer reads. I've redirected this message to that list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/