Okay hope this helps someone else but I have it working by placing the
following in my .bashrc
It might be a tad hacky but it works better than having a separate script.
alias ranger="ranger-fix"
ranger-fix() {
COLUMNS=
LINES=
exec ranger "$@"
}
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 22:06, Justine Smithies <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Anyone had any joy setting these globally ?
> I'd rather not run a script to run ranger although I suppose I could
> create an alias in my .bashrc that runs a function with the same lines as
> suggested by Drew.
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 21:19 Justine Smithies, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> OMG ! Setting LINES= and COLUMNS= in kitty and running ranger actually
>> works even opening other terminal windows. Now to implement this so no
>> matter what terminal or app is being used they just work.
>>
>> Cheers Drew.
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 20:59 Justine Smithies, <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Drew I'll give that a try and let you know if it resolves the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 20:58 Drew Ditthardt, <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh, so reading up the alacritty issue I noticed this issue affects htop
>>>> as well.
>>>>
>>>> If it's what I think it is...I fixed htop on my machine by overriding
>>>> it with this script
>>>> ```
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> COLUMNS=
>>>> LINES=
>>>> exec /usr/bin/htop "$@"
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> If your shell provides COLUMNS/LINES, you need to remove them from the
>>>> environment to get ncurses applications to respond properly to SIGWINCH.
>>>>
>>>> --Drew Ditthardt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:43 PM tcld <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am using ranger, too, and am experiencing the same issue. It's not
>>>>> related to Qtile, I think, since there are a select few terminal emulators
>>>>> with which it works flawlessly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is an issue on the alacritty-github, where I listed the terminals
>>>>> I tried: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4560
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 20:35:30 UTC+1 Justine Smithies wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone else using Qtile had an issue whereby you run ranger from
>>>>>> any terminal but I'm using kitty and then open another terminal say in
>>>>>> monadtall but the ranger terminal window never updates to fit the window
>>>>>> change of size. I thought it was kitty but have tried 3 other terminals
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> no avail. I tried on my a raspberry pi running just the standard install
>>>>>> and it uses lxterminal and ranger seemed fine when I resized the windows.
>>>>>> So I'm thinking could it be Qtile related ? I don't see any errors in the
>>>>>> logs. It's not a show stopper if I keep the window how it originally
>>>>>> opened
>>>>>> but does become unusable if you do accidentally open another window. I
>>>>>> even
>>>>>> check that checksize was on for the terminal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm stumped for now. Any ideas ?
>>>>>>
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