Odd behavior of mintty with screen

[Gary Johnson]

On 2010-03-04, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Gary Johnson
> >Â When I execute screen, however, the mintty
> > window immediately shrinks from 157x49 to 80x49. Â This shrinking
> > does not occur if I maximize the mintty window before executing
> > screen.
> 
> I've had a quick look, and with TERM=xterm-256color I find that screen
> sends the DECCOLM sequence '\e[?3l' for putting a terminal into
> 80-column mode. For some reason, this doesn't happen with TERM=xterm,
> so there's one workaround. Another would be to find the relevant
> setting in the screen terminal.
> 
> But there is an incompatibility with xterm here. Xterm ignores the
> DECCOLM sequence by default and provides a separate control sequence
> for allowing DECCOLM. I'll implement that for mintty 0.6.

I just installed mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin15.  No more screen problem.
Thank you.  I'll install mintty-0.6-beta4-cygwin17 at home this
weekend.

Regards,
Gary


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