Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink
On 7/20/14, Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness:
>> When I log in to my debian box using putty, I set in putty config a
>> width of 100 (rather than 80). This works.
>>
>> When I run GNU Screen, the putty console shrinks back to 80 width.
>>
>> Any idea why this might be?
>
> I had the same issue when I recently changed my TERM setting in PuTTY to
> xterm-utf8 as someone suggested here recently. This line in ~/.screenrc
> solves it:
>
> termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'
Heaven! Thank you so much.
I had that line, but without the asterisk. Problem solved.
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