My console becomes 121 characters wide when I turn on unicode, but stty says it is 132 characters.
Looking at the stty manpage, I see: Special settings: ... * cols N tell the kernel that the terminal has N columns * columns N same as cols N --- I thought 'cool', I'll tell the kernel its only 121 characters. I end up with : > echo $TTY > /dev/tty1 > stty cols 121 stty: 'standard input': Invalid argument So .. why can't I tell the kernel how many columns my tty is?