Re: window size doesn't change for 132 columns

Glenn Holmer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250
Organization Weyco Group, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 12:36 +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> The security vulnerability that triggered this is listed here:
>   http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-2383
> 
> and the xterm changelog entry for it is here:
> 
>   http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_238
> 
> It looks like we need to add the lines below to the bottom of
> /usr/share/tn5250/XTerm, or wherever it gets installed, although I don't
> know if this will work with all the patched versions of xterm:
> 
> xt5250.VT100*allowWindowOps: True
> xt5250.VT100*allowFontOps: True

Thanks, that fixes it on Ubuntu 8.04 (GNOME) as well.  It's great to
have this terminal emulator, it's one of those things you use every day
and never give a thought to until something like this comes up.

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Glenn Holmer                          [email protected]
Software Engineer                        phone: 414-908-1809
Weyco Group, Inc.                          fax: 414-908-1601



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