On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 02:30:15PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 235-1 > Severity: normal > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > When I resize xterm while vim oder mutt or some other program is running > in it (probably also bash, but it's not that visible there), the program > does not resize to the new window size, but to the last window size. > I.e. I start xterm and it's 80x24. I then start mutt and resize to > 90x24, but mutt stays at 80x24. I resize again to 100x24 and mutt goes > to 90x24. Again to 60x24 and mutt goes to 100x24. And so on. > > Unfortunately this seems to be a rather sporadic bug. :-( > It looks like when the program gets SIGWINCH and queries the new window > size it still gets the old size from xterm. (race condition?) any other clues would be helpful. Usually I'm using fvwm and tcsh (and don't see any problems). Both the window manager and the shell have some influence. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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