OMG ! Setting LINES= and COLUMNS= in kitty and running ranger actually works even opening other terminal windows. Now to implement this so no matter what terminal or app is being used they just work.
Cheers Drew. On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 20:59 Justine Smithies, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Drew I'll give that a try and let you know if it resolves the issue. > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 20:58 Drew Ditthardt, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Oh, so reading up the alacritty issue I noticed this issue affects htop >> as well. >> >> If it's what I think it is...I fixed htop on my machine by overriding it >> with this script >> ``` >> #!/bin/bash >> COLUMNS= >> LINES= >> exec /usr/bin/htop "$@" >> ``` >> >> If your shell provides COLUMNS/LINES, you need to remove them from the >> environment to get ncurses applications to respond properly to SIGWINCH. >> >> --Drew Ditthardt >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:43 PM tcld <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am using ranger, too, and am experiencing the same issue. It's not >>> related to Qtile, I think, since there are a select few terminal emulators >>> with which it works flawlessly. >>> >>> Here is an issue on the alacritty-github, where I listed the terminals I >>> tried: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4560 >>> >>> On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 20:35:30 UTC+1 Justine Smithies wrote: >>> >>>> Has anyone else using Qtile had an issue whereby you run ranger from >>>> any terminal but I'm using kitty and then open another terminal say in >>>> monadtall but the ranger terminal window never updates to fit the window >>>> change of size. I thought it was kitty but have tried 3 other terminals to >>>> no avail. I tried on my a raspberry pi running just the standard install >>>> and it uses lxterminal and ranger seemed fine when I resized the windows. >>>> So I'm thinking could it be Qtile related ? I don't see any errors in the >>>> logs. It's not a show stopper if I keep the window how it originally opened >>>> but does become unusable if you do accidentally open another window. I even >>>> check that checksize was on for the terminal. >>>> >>>> I'm stumped for now. Any ideas ? >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "qtile-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/aef18f64-9a31-4c27-8e4a-292e7f4d15c6n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/aef18f64-9a31-4c27-8e4a-292e7f4d15c6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "qtile-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/CAGekxbTAyubEU1DWSJ%2BumfRZ3_XeMCcXtaocOE5gsk5KsvxWBA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/CAGekxbTAyubEU1DWSJ%2BumfRZ3_XeMCcXtaocOE5gsk5KsvxWBA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/CADrRWNZ261gOHWcVorVwuaqqVwC6rMS3g75AUVZYOTwOO%2BoGFw%40mail.gmail.com.
