On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 04:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[🔎] 1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, > Mark L. Kahnt <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> wrote: > >XTerms stick to the standard computer > >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the > >source (I presume a header file with such constants) - otherwise if you > >feel that you must use the non-standard 25th line, that is what > >.Xdefaults is for, as well as /etc/X11/Xresources/ - while most ncurses > >applications I've seen now work with whatever screen size they get, you > >may find some that will stick you with a bad line or confused scrolling > >because they expect strictly 80x24 (although that is thankfully getting > >quite rare, what with users of SVGATextMode and of framebuffer.) > > If you enter a university computer room you'll see that lots of > people run their xterms at 80x55 or so - and have been doing that > since the eighties. Without any problems. > > Mike. > -- > They all laughed when I said I wanted to build a joke-telling machine. > Well, I showed them! Nobody's laughing *now*! -- acesteves@clix.pt I run one at 175x61 (well, I just hit the Maximise button) which comes in great when trying to track down problems in /etc - my comments were more directed at the assumption that the xterm being 24 lines tall was a bug, which was the impression I got from the OP's subject. It is far nicer than the first computer with a display that I worked with: HP 9830A had one led line of 32 characters (scrollable from left to right to see the entire line.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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