[Xmonad] resizeing xterms

[Marnix Klooster]

Hi Tim,

I had the same problem with (Gentoo's) xterm, under larswm.  Now, my
xterm almost never changes size (my left-hand 'track' in larswm is
almost always the same size).  So I set the larswm 'tile_resize'
property to False, which apparently does not send a resize to a window
when re-tiling.  And if larswm must show it in a smaller space, it just
shows the available top-left part of that window.

It might be useful to have this kind of property in xmonad, somehow.

Groetjes,
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Marnix
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmonad-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:xmonad-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Tim Docker
> Sent: Thursday, 24 May, 2007 3:58
> To: Donald Bruce Stewart
> Cc: xmonad at haskell.org
> Subject: RE: [Xmonad] resizeing xterms
> 
> losing text:
> 
> If I make the window narrower (via xmonad meta-h), the text 
> on the right
> hand side is hidden
> When I make it wider (meta-l), the hidden text doesn't return, I just
> see whitespace.
> 
> ^L clears the screen, and if I shift-pgup to scroll backwards, the
> entire line history has been truncated at the minimum width I narrowed
> to.
> 
> timd at tcc15:~/src/xmonad$ xterm -version
> XTerm(222)
> 
> Don't know if that's modern or not. The distribution is 
> reasonably up to
> date, however.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Bruce Stewart [mailto:dons at cse.unsw.edu.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:45 AM
> To: Tim Docker
> Cc: xmonad at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: [Xmonad] resizeing xterms
> 
> timd:
> > This is not an xmonad question per-se, but...
> >  
> > In using xmonad my xterms get shrunken and expanded much more often 
> > than with a regular window manager. When this happens how 
> do I prevent
> 
> > them from losing the text that was hidden by the shrinking? 
> Is there 
> > some
>  
> losing text? does refresh help (^L) 
> 
> > sort of config option - or should I be using an alternative 
> terminal?
> 
> I use xterm, and it seems to work fairly well, 'cept that it sometimes
> doesn't know its been resized. You're using a modern xterm?
> 
> -- Don
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