That's a great workaround, thank you Drew! Would you mind adding it to the alacritty issue, too? There were other people having the same issue.
Would it be a bad idea to set those variables globally? I have a bunch of applications having trouble with this, I even had to switch to urxvt for the time being. On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 23:06:22 UTC+1 Justine Smithies wrote: > Anyone had any joy setting these globally ? > I'd rather not run a script to run ranger although I suppose I could > create an alias in my .bashrc that runs a function with the same lines as > suggested by Drew. > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 21:19 Justine Smithies, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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/37d77c61-e81f-4738-a3a4-df2970253d3en%40googlegroups.com.
