On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:20:47PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:11:24PM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: > > for example, when I type 'ls' I get this: > > $ ls > > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root stand tmp var > > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin sys usr > > > > Now I open a new xterm (Alt+Shift+Enter) and hit Alt+Enter to switch > > back to my previous xterm with the ls. All I see now is this: > > > > $ ls > > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root > > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin > > $ > > Known xterm limitation, there is no way except screen(1) to fix > this. So, I guess many of you have something like this in there config.h? :
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, "exec xterm -e screen" }, > st is designed to remember and rearrange the line buffer > according to window sizes, as long as you're not using a real VT > mode application like vi -- hence ls output will be reformatted > correctly. But if a VT app is running, it controls the whole > window area, so st can't help there. > > See st as a mixture of 9term and xterm. VT mode apps will be > handled in a separate buffer in any case. I see, sounds nice.