On 24 Dec 2002 06:45:27 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 04:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, > > Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >XTerms stick to the standard computer > > >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into > > >the source (I presume a header file with such constants) - > > >otherwise if you feel that you must use the non-standard 25th line, > > >that is what.Xdefaults is for, as well as /etc/X11/Xresources/ - > > >while most ncurses applications I've seen now work with whatever > > >screen size they get, you may find some that will stick you with a > > >bad line or confused scrolling because they expect strictly 80x24 > > >(although that is thankfully getting quite rare, what with users of > > >SVGATextMode and of framebuffer.) > > > > If you enter a university computer room you'll see that lots of > > people run their xterms at 80x55 or so - and have been doing that > > since the eighties. Without any problems. > > > > Mike. > > -- > > They all laughed when I said I wanted to build a joke-telling > > machine. Well, I showed them! Nobody's laughing *now*! -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I run one at 175x61 (well, I just hit the Maximise button) which comes > in great when trying to track down problems in /etc - my comments were > more directed at the assumption that the xterm being 24 lines tall was > a bug, which was the impression I got from the OP's subject. ((snipped)) well I was running "term" an emulator from censoft, and it requires a 25 line terminal... I didn't know if 24 was really the "right" number or not. I will take a look at /etc/X11/Xresources. Thank you guys, Shawn -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
