Hans Horn <han...@2horns.com> writes: > On 5/5/2010 8:28 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: >> 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.... > > Just for curiosity: are you using 'expect' to log to the remote system? > If so, you'd need you modify your expect script to handle SIGWINCH > properly. Let me know... > H.
Yes I am. I use expect to login, then go interactive. There is a flag/setting to monitor SIGWINCH? Tell me, please!!! -- 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
