Re: xterm starts with LINES=24 s/b 25
On 24 Dec 2002 06:45:27 -0500
"Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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.
((snipped))
well I was running "term" an emulator from censoft, and it requires a 25
line terminal... I didn't know if 24 was really the "right" number or
not. I will take a look at /etc/X11/Xresources.
Thank you guys,
Shawn
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Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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