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joven

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Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 19

Looking for a terminal that does not truncate lines when resized

I am a huge fan of tiling window managers in general and have used dwm exclusively for over a year now. One thing that drives me crazy though is that when I switch a terminal window from being the primary window to a secondary and then back again, all of the lines are truncated to the smaller width. If I am watching a log file for example, this makes the previous output totally unreadable. Does anyone have a solution for this? Is there a way to make the terminal not truncate the lines if resized to a smaller width?

Thanks!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Looking for a terminal that does not truncate lines when resized

Try
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=548267
http://tomayko.com/writings/StupidShellTricks

joven

Member

Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 19

Re: Looking for a terminal that does not truncate lines when resized

It looks like urxvt has addressed this issue for the most part. There are still times when it truncates but most of the time I can toggle the main window in dwm and urxvt maintains the full content. Odd that it doesn't work all the time though.