On 02/26/14 16:57, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 02/26/14 16:39, Brian J. Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 04:04 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> The
>>>
>>> CSI Ps ; Ps ; Ps t
>>>
>>> escape sequence serves for window manipulation. We can use the
>>>
>>> CSI 8 ; <rows> ; <columns> t
>>>
>>> sequence to adapt eg. the xterm window size to the selected console mode.
>>>
>>
>> I'd suggest *not* committing this patch, or at least leaving the
>> functionality disabled (PCD) by default. If I remember correctly, we
>> (SGI) tried this internally a number of years ago. The feedback from
>> early users was that resizing people's terminal windows on them is very
>> annoying, and A Really Bad Idea. They asked us to remove it
>> immediately. I'm sure it's a matter of opinion, but for our users at
>> least, the opinion was pretty clear-cut.
>
> The xterm manual says:
>
> VT100 Widget Resources
>
> Specify which features will be disabled if allowWindowOps is false.
> This is a comma-separated list of names, or (for the controls
> adapted from dtterm the operation number). The default value is
> 20,21,SetXprop,SetSelection
Sorry, I mis-pasted this paragraph. It should say:
The following resources are specified as part of the vt100 widget
(class VT100). They are specified by patterns such as
"XTerm.vt100.NAME".
>
> [...]
>
> disallowedWindowOps (class DisallowedWindowOps)
>
> Specify which features will be disabled if allowWindowOps is
> false. This is a comma-separated list of names, or (for the
> controls adapted from dtterm the operation number). The default
> value is 20,21,SetXprop,SetSelection
>
> [...]
>
> SetWinSizeChars (8)
> Resize the text area to given size in characters.
So the line to put in ~/.Xresources would be:
XTerm.vt100.disallowedWindowOps = SetWinSizeChars
But, again, I don't insist :)
Thanks
Laszlo
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