Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote:
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> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
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>> 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'
That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the
"screen" package. If I need multiple terminal sessions, I just launch multiple
PuTTY sessions. I guess I don't see the need for screen. But in any case,
I don't understand the design of screen. Why does it need an external
definition of terminal type characteristics in a configuration file?
Why doesn't it rely on the terminfo information stored in ncurses?
In any case, I'm glad you found a solution.
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