Hi Thomas, Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal.
However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! Kris > > > > I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP > SP1 machine > > running xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The > funny thing > > is that it happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in > > others... In fact, I don't think I resized that xterm yet > (started it > > with xterm -ls -sl 3000 -sb by the way). > > That sounds like permissions: signals don't generally > propagate across su and other things that change the > ownership of the terminal. You can usually work around those > by running resize (which uses escape sequences to find the > actual size of the xterm, and does the equivalent of an stty > to update your local terminal-size values). >