Re: resize a screen on creation?

[Aaron Davies]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Andy Harrison <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Aaron Davies  wrote:
>> this is trivial, but it's been bugging me for a while. when i add a
>> bunch of screens at once from inside a running screen (using a shell
>> loop or something) all but the first don't resize to match the
>> terminal window until they're focused--when i first jump to them, if
>> it's running a shell, the prompt will be positioned 24 lines from the
>> bottom of the window, not at the top; if it's running a curses app, it
>> will be sized for 24x80; etc. Also, my caption won't add any but the
>> first new screen until I change screens again (or issue :redisplay).
>> Any way around either of these? (i should mention i'm running screen
>> 4.00.02, the stock version for SuSE 9.3, so if these are fixed in HEAD
>> or something, that's cool too. :)
>
> If you have your COLUMNS and LINES environment variables populated,
> screen honors them.
>
> I tried this in my .tcshrc file (which would be much much simpler to
> express in your .bashrc file) and it seems to solve that annoyance
> just fine.

hmm. before i can see if that works for me, i think i need to solve a
possibly related problem: my LINES and COLUMNS vars don't even make it
into screen. i have `eval resize` near the end of my .bash_profile,
which sets and exports them, so they should show up in any subprocess,
right? i don't have any shell setting in my .screenrc, so screen
should run non-login instances of my regular shell, i.e. bash w/the
.bashrc executed, but not the .bash_profile. nonetheless, after login
but before starting screen, i find that LINES and COLUMNS are set;
after starting screen and checking from inside, i find that they're
not. why are they not getting passed down?
-- 
Aaron Davies
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