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has caused the Debian Bug report #496971,
regarding screen doesn't always send the correct window size after a resize
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Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-13
Severity: normal
When I start "screen", apps that run in it don't always notice screen
resize: the problem often occurs with "emacs -nw" and occurs in
non-selected windows with Mutt (well, I'm not completely sure, as
this is a bit random: the difference may just be a coincidence).
What's particularly interesting is the following:
* When the problem occurs, sending the SIGWINCH explicitly to the
Emacs process (with kill -WINCH) doesn't have any effect.
* When the problem occurs and I create a new window from the same
screen session and start "emacs -nw" in this new window, this
Emacs does not get the correct window size.
Basically, I think this means that this problem is 100% a problem in
screen.
This seems to be a recent regression (but I'm not sure).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
screen recommends no packages.
screen suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 4.8.0-2
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