Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:00:32AM +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
I took a look, but didn't see one...
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