sorry all; gmail's reply is not including the list for some reason. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Matt Brown wrote:

I've just discovered that rxvt-unicode handles resizing perfectly under gnome's default WM (in hardy), but not in xmonad. strange, because gnome-terminal resizes the same in both.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Andreas Niederl wrote:

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Hi,

Matt Brown wrote:

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I'm using one of the standard layouts, where one window is bigger than all the others, which is great, except my terminal emulator (xterm, tried rxvt too) doesn't handle being resized very well. It starts wrapping at the new width (also great). My problem is that when a window starts out big, then gets shrunk and restored to its original size, all the old lines are truncated at the small width. the rest of the window is blank. is there a terminal that can handle being resized better, or a config option for either of these? or is there a way I can get xmonad to ask the window to redraw itself?

I'm also having this problem and after some stracing I'm pretty sure that I'm experiencing a race condition in the Linux kernel between the terminal size ioctls.

According to a Debian bugreport [1] mentioned on the rxvt-unicode list [2] this was introduced in 2.6.26rc1 and resolved in 2.6.27rc1.

Regards, Andi

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483564 [2] http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2008q3/000688.html