Hello again,
and thank you for your answers. The truth is that I'm working on a small
tty-based utility, which allows remote help, exactly the way I want it.
I was surprised that such doesn't exist already.
Vino is an interesting possibility, but when all you have is someone who
tells you he just installed Linux, and hasn't got a clue, I want
something that will work with as few troubles as possible. Such as the
fact that the person I want to help has a shared IP.
So this brings me to good old tty games. Now I want my (konsole, xterm,
gnome-terminal) terminal window to resize itself in order to match the
person I want to help, so that curses-based applications (vi, less and
others) work properly.
Getting the counterpart's window size is easy: ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ,
(char *)&win). Suppose I got the numbers over to the other side, I could
then set them with ioctl(0, TIOCSWINSZ, (char *)&win). But nothing
happens when I do that.
I also found some escape sequences for resizing (ESC CSI 4; rows;
cols) but that didn't work either.
So, does anyone here know a fairly portable way to resize a terminal window?
Thanks in advance,
Eli
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