Re: Terminal Sizing on Startup

on Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:59:28AM +0100, Matthew Buckett wrote:
> First can I thanks for Matchbox, I use it on small Thinkpad 240 and it 
> works a treat. It means I don't have to be reaching for the mouse every 
> minute and is nice and fast too.
>

Thats good to here. The upcoming 0.6 release has more/better support for
keyboard shortcuts ( See http://handhelds.org/~mallum/matchbox/0.6 for
preview releases )
 
> I have a small problem in that when I startup a new terminal 
> rxvt/xterm/etc they don't seem to get the correct window size so curses 
> programs get confused (vi,less,lynx,top). This does not seem to happen 
> all the time with rxvt, just sometimes. xterm always fails to resize 
> correctly. As a workaround I have the following lines in my ~/.bashrc
> 
>     if [ "$DISPLAY" ]; then
>         eval `resize`
>     fi
> 
> Which works but seems a bit of an evil hack.
> 

:/

I need to investigate this, to see if its matchbox at fault or if not
theres some way I can work around it. 

Thanks for the info;

  -- Matthew