Re: resize a screen on creation?

[Andy Harrison]

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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Aaron Davies  wrote:
> this is trivial, but it's been bugging me for a while. when i add a
> bunch of screens at once from inside a running screen (using a shell
> loop or something) all but the first don't resize to match the
> terminal window until they're focused--when i first jump to them, if
> it's running a shell, the prompt will be positioned 24 lines from the
> bottom of the window, not at the top; if it's running a curses app, it
> will be sized for 24x80; etc. Also, my caption won't add any but the
> first new screen until I change screens again (or issue :redisplay).
> Any way around either of these? (i should mention i'm running screen
> 4.00.02, the stock version for SuSE 9.3, so if these are fixed in HEAD
> or something, that's cool too. :)


If you have your COLUMNS and LINES environment variables populated,
screen honors them.

I tried this in my .tcshrc file (which would be much much simpler to
express in your .bashrc file) and it seems to solve that annoyance
just fine.

set screen_size = ( `stty size` )

if ( ! $?LINES && ! $?COLUMNS ) then
    foreach element ( $screen_size )
        if ( ! $?LINES ) then
            setenv LINES $element
        endif

        if ( ! $?COLUMNS ) then
            setenv COLUMNS $element
        endif
    end
endif



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