Subject: Re: Putty- resize screen
From: James Zuelow (e5z8652@zuelow.net)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 07:13:42 AKDT
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From: "Jim Dory" <jdory@gci.net>
To: "AKLUG" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: Putty- resize screen
>
> Just curious if there's a way to recover from resizing the putty
screen
> (on windows.. shh'd into linux).
> I was just trying to do a Suse online update, couldn't read all the
> lines, so resized. All went blank then. Dang. I won't do that again on
Important clue - Yast2 uses curses, not just a text interface.
> purpose, anyway. But wondering if there's a way to get the prompt
back,
> or the echo of what was going on, or does it somehow kill the
session..
> or am I doing something totally wrong anyway and no-one else
experiences
> this?
>
I have a headless SuSE box, and I also use Yast2 via PuTTY. I've
learned to maximise the screen before I start any curses based
interface. I'm sure there is a way to reset a curses display, but I'm
not enough of a guru to know how.
Note that I haven't done a lot of experimenting either. One thing you
might want to check out is using the different terminal options in your
PuTTY session. I think the default is a VT-100 terminal, which IIRC
could only be set to 80 or 132 columns (it's been a while since I used
one - the UAF VAX). You can choose a Linux x-term, which in theory
could be set to almost anything. Maybe curses handles screen changes
better in that case, since it is expecting odd screen sizes. However I
don't have time to test this myself this morning (kids to get out the
door, etc.etc.) and curses might be just plain un-resizeable.
HTH
James
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