On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:16 PM Grant Taylor
<gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/19 2:04 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > My xterm wraps & resizes just fine (e.g., a long line wraps;
> > on maximizing the window, contents are redrawn and use just one
> > line, if it fits). I don't think I did anything special for this
> > to work.
>
> That surprises me.
>
> Are you automatically running screen or tmux or similar?  They can do this.

Nope. Just plain xterm (which I use a lot). BTW: it also works
remotely, via ssh. $TERM is "xterm".

>
> This is the first time I've heard anyone indicate that XTerm itself did
> this.
>
> What version of XTerm are you running?  What is the output of "xterm
> -version"?
XTerm(337)


>
> > Maybe it's window manager related? I use openbox. My USE variables
> > for xterm are the same as Mick's.
>
> The window manager should not have any effect on what's inside the window.
>
No idea, then.

Jorge

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