On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 04:35:39PM +0100, German Hammerl wrote: > Hi there, > > I am new to this mailing list and have problems to search the > archives, therefore I dare to ask, even though this question may > already have been asked and answered before: > > In vanilla dwm, by, e.g., starting mutt or vifm via > > st -e mutt > st -e vifm > > I receive a fullscreen terminal window correctly displaying > the content of mutt or vifm, but if I then > open a mail in mutt or a file in vifm invoking nvim, > the terminal geometry in nvim is acually that size > of a single floating window of st, resulting in a scrambeled display > of the mail or file in nvim. Ctrl+L will not fix the display, but > only a switch to 'monocl' and back to 'tile'. > > Is there any way to correct the terminal geometry after > opening the st terminal? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > German >
My guess: Timing problem. dwm resizes st during startup, and then st changes its window size, and either of the affected applications does not update the window size when this happens. I would run mutt or vifm under strace to see if they get a SIGWINCH, and if they react to it by re-reading the window size. If not, they may have a problem if SIGWINCH occurs too early (they ought to register the SIGWINCH handler first and read the window size second, not the other way around). HTH, Markus
