Re: Terminal Sizing on Startup

Matthew Allum wrote:
> on Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:59:28AM +0100, Matthew Buckett wrote:
 >
>>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. 

Forgot to mention this...

xterm not resizing I think is a bug in xterm as I had a similar problem 
when using pwm (http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/pwm/) and asigning xterms to 
frames automatically that weren't 80x25. rxvt however never had any 
problems.

Buckett