Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 02:30:15PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote: >> Package: xterm >> Version: 235-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> When I resize xterm while vim oder mutt or some other program is running >> in it (probably also bash, but it's not that visible there), the program >> does not resize to the new window size, but to the last window size. >> I.e. I start xterm and it's 80x24. I then start mutt and resize to >> 90x24, but mutt stays at 80x24. I resize again to 100x24 and mutt goes >> to 90x24. Again to 60x24 and mutt goes to 100x24. And so on. >> >> Unfortunately this seems to be a rather sporadic bug. > > :-( > >> It looks like when the program gets SIGWINCH and queries the new window >> size it still gets the old size from xterm. (race condition?) > > any other clues would be helpful. Usually I'm using fvwm and tcsh (and > don't see any problems). Both the window manager and the shell have some > influence.
Looks exactly like this kernel problem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/11/538 - please confirm my testing under different kernel versions -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
