Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-02-01 Thread Kenneth Karlsen
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! You could try to hold down shift and use the + and - on the numerical keypad to change the font and windowsize. It works for

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill >>> so errant process. It might sa

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, b

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so > errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut dow

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font > size!! > xterm has a neat feature. Ctrl-right lick of the mouse in an xterm will pop up a menu where you can choose the font size, etc. In case you need to make

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ken Irving wrote the following on 01/30/2009 01:30 PM: It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a > bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the termi

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was >> heard to say: >>> I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal >>> window doesn't wrap c

Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it j

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks was heard to say: > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and >

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window > doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on > the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 10:33 PM: On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the comma

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't w

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continui

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the be

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you

Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a val