Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> On 2022-01-26 5:55 p.m., Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > Actually apparently putty does support remote resizing. It just seems that 
> > our systems lack the right termcap entries.
>
> I managed to resize the putty window by running the command:
> resize -s height width
>
> so:
> resize -s 24 80
>
> Also adding this:
> termcapinfo xterm WS=\E[8;%d;%dt
>
> to:
> /etc/screenrc
>
> Allows screen to resize the putty session (with the :width and :height 
> commands).
>
> But when quitting/restarting screen it puts the putty and the screen session 
> back to the original size.

Thanks, that gives me something to investigate. At the moment, adding
that causes the screen to resize to 80x24 when I attach or detatch which
is not what I want but it gives me something to explore.

Tim.