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Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns

Posted Jun 5, 2004 15:05 UTC (Sat) by vivek (guest, #6962)
In reply to: Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns by jwb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators

kill -WINCH $$ usually does the trick when the window size has
been changed behind the emulator's back.

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Posted Jun 7, 2004 19:10 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

But why does this work in xterm by default but not in kterm? In any case
I'm able to fix it by running the "resize" program but I shouldn't have to.