Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2714 mails)

[Peter Nixon <listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri 18 May 2007, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:31:29AM +0300, Peter Nixon wrote:
> > When connecting to the RedHat machine from the mobile terminal 'stty -a'
> > shows:
> >
> > rows 0; columns 0;
> >
> > The SLES8 machine shows:
> >
> > rows 24; columns 80
> >
> >
> > Obviously BOTH of these are wrong for the terminal, yet the Oracle Forms
> > application shows the bottom status bar in the correct place with
> > RedHat, yet with SLES8 the terminal screen needs to be scrolled down to
> > see it.
>
> Hmm, maybe the oracle application does something fancy (like calling
> the resize application) when the rows/columns are zero.
> Does it work on a sles machine if you do 'stty rows 0 columns 0'
> before strarting the application?

This doesn't solve the problem unfortunately..

However 'stty rows 14' from .profile does make the status bar appear in the 
correct place on one device, a second "identical" device shows it one line 
higher...

We just tested on SLES9 and it behaves in the same way as SLES8

> > BOTH servers show the correct rows and columns when connecting with
> > putty from windows or a standard xterm. (The values also correctly
> > change if the term is resized)
>
> I guess the application also behaves correctly in this case?

yes. it does.


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