pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) (02/12/88)
I've been trying to get an xterm of size other than 24x80 to work with editors, more, etc. but without much success. Does someone out there have a termcap entry for xterm that will support sizes other than 24x80? It would be nice if I could resize the xterm window after it was created, too, if possible. But I'll take what I can get. Anyone have anything for this? -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds
bob@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (02/14/88)
In article <638@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: >an xterm of size other than 24x80...termcap entry for xterm that will >support sizes other than 24x80? When you create an xterm window, the environment variable TERMCAP will be created correctly for whatever size window you have specified. You can always change co# and li# fields, but that's the Wrong Way: >...It would be nice if I could resize the xterm window after it was >created, too, if possible. Look at resize, which can be used to change the physical size of the xterm window and make corresponding changes to TERMCAP all in one swell foop. The manual page suggests a couple of csh aliases for commands to use to resize xterm windows. I use things like "xrs 37 92" with no problem at all. -=- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob
kline@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (02/17/88)
/* Written 9:14 am Feb 14, 1988 by bob@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu */ >In article <638@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: > >>...It would be nice if I could resize the xterm window after it was >>created, too, if possible. > >Look at resize, which can be used to change the physical size of the >xterm window and make corresponding changes to TERMCAP all in one >swell foop. The manual page suggests a couple of csh aliases for >commands to use to resize xterm windows. I use things like "xrs 37 >92" with no problem at all. If you have a 4.3-compatible tty driver and at least xterm 2.2, xterm set the tty driver's row and column attributes on a resize. Vi and more and several other programs look at those attributes when figuring out the terminal size. Some, however, don't. Also, xterm will send a SIGWINCH signal to the controlling process. If the controlling process is vi, it will understand this signal and change its own notion of screen size, repainting the window in the process. It's pretty slick, actually. > Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science ----- Charley Kline, University of Illinois Computing Services kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu kline@uiucvmd.bitnet {ihnp4,uunet,pur-ee,convex}!uiucuxc!kline