On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson > > When I execute screen, however, the mintty > > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49. This shrinking > > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing > > screen. > > I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find that screen > sends the DECCOLM sequence '\e[?3l' for putting a terminal into > 80-column mode. For some reason, this doesn't happen with TERM=xterm, > so there's one workaround. Another would be to find the relevant > setting in the screen terminal. > > But there is an incompatibility with xterm here. Xterm ignores the > DECCOLM sequence by default and provides a separate control sequence > for allowing DECCOLM. I'll implement that for mintty 0.6.
I just installed mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin15. No more screen problem. Thank you. I'll install mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin17 at home this weekend. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
