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Bug#347308: marked as done (xterm frequently mis-detects its window size)



Your message dated Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:59:58 +0100
with message-id <20080123095958.GA13352@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
and subject line Xterm's tty resizing changed in 226
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: xterm
Version: 208-1

With the ion window manager (which does not honor applications' window
size requests) xterm frequently doesn't notice that it hasn't gotten
the size which it has requested.  Presumbably this the the bug
described in http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#3.1 but the
condition has gotten much worse with the newest xterm package, with
many more new xterm windows needing to be manually sent a resize event
before registering the real window size.

Random configuration details:
xlibs-data                       6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libc6                            2.3.5-11
libfontconfig1                   2.3.2-1.1
libfreetype6                     2.1.10-1
libice6                          6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libncurses5                      5.5-1
libsm6                           6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libx11-6                         6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libxaw8                          6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libxext6                         6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libxft2                          2.1.7-1
libxmu6                          6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
libxrender1                      0.9.0.2-1
libxt6                           6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
zlib1g                           1.2.3-9
ion2                             20040729-2
-- 
Robert Macomber
xbxyha@rojoma.com



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Package: xterm
Version: 226-1

Xterm's Changelog contains in the description of 226:

* modify logic which resets/updates the screensize on the child process side of the
  pseudo-terminal to do this only if a successful handshake was received, e.g., as
  determined by the waitForMap resource (prompted by reports by Emanuele Giaquinta
  and Bernhard R Link, but see also patch #177 and patch #159.

And I personally can no longer reproduce this. Thus I take the liberty to close
the two bug reports about this.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link

P.S: Note that 228' Changelog contains more changes:

* amend changes to handshake in patch #226 to accommodate Solaris, which relies on
  the extra setting of the terminal size after I/O initialization. Do this by adding
  new resource ptySttySize, which is false for Linux and MacOS X, i.e., true for for
  Solaris and other SVR4 platforms, as well as FreeBSD (reports by David Wood, Renato
  Botelho).

So if the non-Linux architectures had the same bug, it might not be necessarily
fixed for those.


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