RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin) terminal, but not for an xterm on my debian system. indeed, they're very different implementations. on cygwin, it sets TERMCAP, while on debian it sets COLUMNS and ROWS environment variables. Happily, pasting the TERMCAP from the cygwin xterm to the debian xterm gets things properly there as well. I'm not sure what resize is doing aside from those environment variables (i.e. I can't see the escape sequences), but maybe my problem is then related to incorrect TERMCAP settings? (TERMCAP is normally not set when I log in to my debian system (xterm -ls). I realise these last issues are probably not an CYGWIN/Xfree thing, but I thought to let you know anyway. Kris
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin) terminal, but not for an xterm on my debian system. indeed, they're very different implementations. on cygwin, it sets TERMCAP, while on debian it sets COLUMNS and ROWS environment variables. Happily, pasting the TERMCAP from the cygwin xterm to the debian xterm gets things properly there as well. I'm not sure what resize is doing aside from those environment variables (i.e. I can't see the escape sequences), but maybe my problem is then related to incorrect TERMCAP settings? (TERMCAP is normally not set when I log in to my debian system (xterm -ls). That's puzzling: xterm tries to set $TERMCAP (if it is linked with a termcap library) since termcap-based applications typically do not pay any attention to other ways of getting the screen size. But termcap on Linux isn't (especially Debian) used much. If you have an application that uses termcap, it's probably worth taking the time to compile 'resize' linked with the termcap library as well. (xterm's configure script tries to find a termcap library in preference to terminfo for this reason). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
Hi Thomas, Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! Kris I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP SP1 machine running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The funny thing is that it happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in others... In fact, I don't think I resized that xterm yet (started it with xterm -ls -sl 3000 -sb by the way). That sounds like permissions: signals don't generally propagate across su and other things that change the ownership of the terminal. You can usually work around those by running resize (which uses escape sequences to find the actual size of the xterm, and does the equivalent of an stty to update your local terminal-size values).
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
Hi, further on this. I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP SP1 machine running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The funny thing is that it happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in others... In fact, I don't think I resized that xterm yet (started it with xterm -ls -sl 3000 -sb by the way). sorry! Kris I run a remote xterm via ssh -Y mydebianlinuxsystem xterm /dev/null this works perfectly fine, except when I resize the window (in particular: make it wider). It seems that xterm/bash doesn't pick up the new size properly. Although output now does fill the new size, I have trouble with command recall in bash. Pressing uparrow to get to a long command line (i.e. longer than the size of the original window), results in garbled display. The line displays truncated at its original size with bits at the start and end missing. Pressing left-arrow etc results in lots of fun effects. Ctrl-L does display the whole line, but with line breaks at the original width. Note that for local xterms, this problem does not exist.
problem resizing tunneled xterm
Hi I run a remote xterm via ssh -Y mydebianlinuxsystem xterm /dev/null this works perfectly fine, except when I resize the window (in particular: make it wider). It seems that xterm/bash doesn't pick up the new size properly. Although output now does fill the new size, I have trouble with command recall in bash. Pressing uparrow to get to a long command line (i.e. longer than the size of the original window), results in garbled display. The line displays truncated at its original size with bits at the start and end missing. Pressing left-arrow etc results in lots of fun effects. Ctrl-L does display the whole line, but with line breaks at the original width. Note that for local xterms, this problem does not exist. any suggestions? Thanks! (running NT 4.0 sp6a and the latest cygwin/xorg) Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at imperial.ac.uk) Hammersmith Imanet (formerly IRSL) Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.hammersmithimanet.com/~kris
Re: problem resizing tunneled xterm
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi I run a remote xterm via ssh -Y mydebianlinuxsystem xterm /dev/null this works perfectly fine, except when I resize the window (in particular: make it wider). It seems that xterm/bash doesn't pick up the new size properly. Although output now does fill the new size, I have trouble with command recall in bash. Pressing uparrow to get to a long command line (i.e. longer than the size of the original window), results in garbled display. The line displays truncated at its original size with bits at the start and end missing. Pressing left-arrow etc results in lots of fun effects. Ctrl-L does display the whole line, but with line breaks at the original width. Note that for local xterms, this problem does not exist. Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this right now though, so I won't be able to tell you if that was it. sorry. thanks! Kris
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this right now though, so I won't be able to tell you if that was it. sorry. Maybe the xterm maintainer Thomas Dickey can shed a light on this. I'll CC him. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this right now though, so I won't be able to tell you if that was it. sorry. Maybe the xterm maintainer Thomas Dickey can shed a light on this. I'll CC him. offhand I don't recall any changes that would affect that (I'll take a closer look when I'm home). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
