On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:07:48AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: >In my Cygwin X-Windows xterm environment, I'm not seeing the LINES and COLUMNS >environment variables getting updated correctly after my window is resized. >Furthermore, "echo $COLUMNS" and "printenv COLUMNS" don't agree. (I didn't see >relevant articles in the archives.) > >It seems to start off working as expected, but soon fails. What seems to work >reliably is the following sequence in a new login shell: >1) export COLUMNS=80 >2) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows 80 >3) # resize xterm window width >4) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows new width > >Two interesting repeatable anomalies: >1) If I omit step 2, the last step reports 80, regardless of the window width; >and >2) "echo $COLUMNS" always reports 80, regardless of what printenv reports. >Also, printenv seems frequently to get stuck at the value 94, regardless of >the actual width. This and many other anomalies don't seem to be repeatable. >I observe LINES behaving similarly to COLUMNS. > >FWIW, I???m using: >Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 >Cygwin DLL version 1.5.19 >xterm 6.8.2.0(202-1) >xorg-x11-* 6.8.2.0-x >bash 3.1-17(6) >I'm starting my bash session within an xterm window with "xterm -e >/usr/bin/bash -l" from a standard startxwin.bat and TERM=xterm.
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