> > When I execute screen, however, the mintty > > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49. This shrinking > > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing > > screen. > > I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find that screen > sends the DECCOLM sequence '\e[?3l' for putting a terminal into > 80-column mode. For some reason, this doesn't happen with TERM=xterm, > so there's one workaround. Another would be to find the relevant > setting in the screen terminal.
Sure enough, the same thing happens with PuTTYcyg. It's been annoying me for a long time, but I've never tried to solve it. For the legion of screen-256color + PuTTYcyg users out there, the solution is to go to the session properties and check Terminal > Features > Disable remote-controlled terminal resizing. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
