On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:33:42PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:29:09AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > thanks, i had ~/.Xresources, renaming it Xdefaults got it read by > > default, thanks :) > > Using 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources' would work, too. > > > next prob, now all my xterms are started with nice colours i have a very > > strange issue. All windows in ratpoison are full screen. Hitting ^t > > c spawns a new xterm. In the new xterms, when i type vim, sometimes vim > > takes up the whole xterm but on other occasions it only uses a section > > of the xterm in the top left hand corner. > > > > I did ^t c, vi, :q!, ^d 10 times to see if there was a pattern to > > wether vim occupied the whole xterm, i recorded the results: > > full,topleft,topleft,full,full,topleft,full,topleft,full,full > > > > very strange behaviour, and seemingly without pattern :( > > > > any idea why vim [or mutt] or any console program would occupy the full > > xterm? note that ls and cat do use the whole of the xterm even when > > vim/mutt/modconf/etc just use a portion. > > xterm should keep track of it's size and inform the apps running within > it this fact, and send them a signal when it changes. I've sometimes > noticed this happen with Eterm (and xterm); resizing the affected window > has always fixed the problem, so I assume it's xterm or something > getting confused for a second. It's usually only if I resize a window > while it's still loading, which would seem to be what rat poison does. > I don't know if you can resize windows in rat poison at all, so this > might not be any help at all, sorry :) thanks for comments, i have foundout that its a known bug in ratpoison and there is a hack to re-inform apps of their size [default bind ^t-l ]
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