environment problems mixing mintty and xterm
Lester Ingber
ingber@ingber.com
Thu Jan 22 16:57:00 GMT 2009
I find mintty very useful. I can bring it up as a standalone window or I
can run run additional windows from xterm running under X. If I do the
latter then mintty inherits the environment from the xterm window I'm
running, e.g., including additional path entries set in ~/.tcshrc, etc.
However, if I run mintty from my xterm window I have some problems.
For example, say I have open xterm (from startxwin.csh) with
xterm +tb -j -sb -geometry 80x84-6+0 &
this sets LINES set to 84.
If I have set up .minttyrc with
Rows=100
then after I go to my mintty window and back to my xterm, my xterm window
is messed up, e.g., top rows under `less` are off the screen.
There is no such problem, when running xterm, if I open an additional
mintty window as a Windows shortcut since it seems to open independently
-- without taking on the environment variables in my xterm window.
I guess it probably would increase the minimal nature of mintty to restore
such environment variables when leaving a mintty window?
Thanks.
Lester
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