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uiii

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 27

XTerm resize problem

Hi,
I don't know exactly, but probably after last update I had problems when resizing XTerm window. Before update it works correctly, the content resize according to the window. Now when I open e.g. htop (ncurses app) and resize window, the app dimensions remains the same, I have to close it and run again to fit the window. The bigger problem is that width of terminal input line doesn't change too, so I can't write longer commands (well, I can, but it wraps in the beginning of the line an rewrites current text). I've tried to downgrade XTerm to previous version but it doesn't help. I wanted to downgrade to more previous versions but I didn't found appropriate repository (only this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … k_Machine). I've tried also meny other terminal emulator, but the problem has almost every alternative.

Please help, it really annoying.

I'm using Xfce as desktop environment.

Thanks
Uiii

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: XTerm resize problem

Try adding 'shopt -s checkwinsize' to your ~/.bashrc.

uiii

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 27

Re: XTerm resize problem

Try adding 'shopt -s checkwinsize' to your ~/.bashrc.

Geat! It helps.

Is it possible that this feature turns off because of update? I've never heard of it, so never turn it on.

Thank you very much.
Uiii

Last edited by uiii (2013-11-21 11:04:43)

ColdPie

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Registered: 2007-09-18

Posts: 47

Re: XTerm resize problem

Did you upgrade nvidia? I had the same issue caused by nvidia 331, downgrading to 325 fixed it.

uiii

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 27

Re: XTerm resize problem

Did you upgrade nvidia? I had the same issue caused by nvidia 331, downgrading to 325 fixed it.

Yes. But it is weird, I can't image how is nvidia related to the virtual emulators. I guess that rather linux package, nvidia's dependency, would be responsible. Anyway I prefer thisoldman's fix than downgrading.

Last edited by uiii (2013-11-21 16:35:46)