Re: [xmonad] Space between terminal

On 18 July 2012 13:14, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini wrote:

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http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-LayoutHints.html *might* help, but you may need to consider using a non-broken terminal program. Too many lazy X11 programmers don't understand that the window manager has the final word on window sizes and it's up to their program to deal.

When you say "non-broken terminal program" are you talking about my terminal emulator? In the SS I was running Terminator, but I have also tried with gnome-terminal, urxvt, rxvt, xterm and aterm and the problem persists.

Most of the rxvt family, including aterm, are known to not work properly. urxvt *should* work as should gnome-terminal. xterm might or might not depending on exact version.

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Curiously lxterminal, Terminal (xfce terminal) and guake, vim covers

I believe lxterminal, Terminal, and gnome-terminal all are based on the same Gtk+ VTE widget and all should work the same way. (They are NOT based on xterm.)

Thanks, I contacted the terminator main developer and he told me that the problem actually has to do with my combination between the font and screen size. Probably it was drawing (for ie) 20.3 rows, and it's configured to only show "complete" rows, so the rest 0.3 is lost. Then I started to resize the window, trying different font typefaces and sizes and it kind of works but it doesn't solve the issue completely. I stated that this was happening in some terminals... it results that it doesn't. It fails on every vte based term emulator. Well, kind of... the problem has to do with the font size, and size of the window, some terminals came with different configurations that's why it seems to work, but it was coincidence. So, in conclusion, is that vte (or gtk-widget?) only draw complete columns (or rows). Since in XMonad my windows are resized automatically (or manually) the 'jumps' doesn't coincide with the rows or columns of the terminal emulator. On 18 July 2012 14:00, Chris Jones wrote:

man xterm..?

in particular:

| % xterm -b pixels

or the corresponding X resource:

| VT100.internalBorder pixels

..؟??

Not sure other terminal emulations have this capability..

Thanks for the -b flag and the internalBorder Xresource, they work with urxvt and xterm. Though it works better with urxvt (dunno why). In fact, after trying a LOT of terms in the only one that the issue doesn't happen at all is in urxvt. ---- After my investigation, I guess that no 'real' solution exist, only some workarounds, so I have to: 1) work that way, 2) change my terminal emulator to urxvt, 3) pick a different font typeface/size combination, or 4) use the same colorscheme between vim and the term so the 'empty' space merge with the background Even if it's not much, you can ignore it, so I wonder how people deal with this. What are your suggestions? Regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/