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Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application



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On 06/30/08 15:47, Martin Kraus wrote:
> hello,
>   I've got a problem with resizing terminal windows. The information about
> terminal resizing doesn't always reach the application running inside the
> terminal. I thought it's the problem with blocked WINCH signal, but now I've
> found out that it works in about 80% of the cases. If it doesn't work
> additional resizes of the term window usualy propagate to the application.
> 
> Is there any way to trace signals that get sent between terminal application 
> and process running inside the terminal? I thought using strace on the
> terminal to see if it sends WINCH signals but I can't seem to find it in the
> output. However I don't know what exactly to look for.

IIRC, there's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses regarding WINCH.

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