[Xmonad] resizeing xterms

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

stepan:
> 24.05.2007 ? 11:59:24 +1000 Donald Bruce Stewart ???????:
> > timd:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > ah, I see. xterm's ^L clears :/ some apps are smarter and repaint.
> > 
> > Maybe people can recommend another terminal more friendly to resizing?
> 
> rxvt-unicode rewraps lines on resizing. And it does not seem to have
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347308.

I've summarised this thread, and the recommendation to use
urxvt/rxvt-unicode on the faq page on xmonad.org. Thanks guys

-- Don