X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:52:27 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Odd behavior of mintty with screen Message-ID: <20100319205227.GA1920@KCJs-Computer> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100304084449 DOT GA11828 AT KCJs-Computer> <416096c61003040515v732dc3h490546a8c8d123d3 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <416096c61003040515v732dc3h490546a8c8d123d3@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson > > When I execute screen, however, the mintty > > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49.  This shrinking > > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing > > screen. > > I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find that screen > sends the DECCOLM sequence '\e[?3l' for putting a terminal into > 80-column mode. For some reason, this doesn't happen with TERM=xterm, > so there's one workaround. Another would be to find the relevant > setting in the screen terminal. > > But there is an incompatibility with xterm here. Xterm ignores the > DECCOLM sequence by default and provides a separate control sequence > for allowing DECCOLM. I'll implement that for mintty 0.6. I just installed mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin15. No more screen problem. Thank you. I'll install mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin17 at home this weekend. Regards, Gary -- 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