Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> writes: > Am 04.05.2010 16:03, schrieb J. David Boyd: >> ... >> >> Locally, I can use the mouse to resize a window, and the $COLUMNS and >> $LINES variables are automatically filled in. >> >> On many remote xterm sessions, they aren't. >> >> Does anyone have any idea where to start figuring out what is wrong, and >> what I can do to correct it? >> > LINES and COLUMNS are legacy mechanisms which may serve as a > workaround if the system doesn't otherwise handle screen size changes > properly. They should not be needed on modern systems where the tty > driver maintains the information. > (You may note that mintty has not set them initially but they get set > on resize - by whatever means... - while in a cygwin console they are > not used at all.) > So if you happen to have these variables set on a system which does > not maintain them, they don't get changed on resize and confuse your > environment. In most cases the best remedy is to just unset them - > does that help? > > ------ > Thomas
Sadly enough, the system I am connecting to, SUSE Linux, does use them, and the checkwinsize shopt BASH function, but, somehow, not correctly.... -- 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
