[Konsole-devel] Determining terminal dimensions in Konsole

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Hello.

I have a program that needs to get the terminal's dimensions it's 
running in.  AFAIK, the standard way to do this is with an TIOCGWINSZ 
ioctl.  However, TIOCGWINSZ only works in Konsole when not using its "-e 
<cmd>" option.  I did open a bug about it six months ago and posted a 
small C example program that triggers it:

   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203185

but unfortunately it did not get any attention.

Now instead of hoping for the bug to get fixed (after six months you 
tend to give up hope :P), I'm looking for an alternative way (that is, 
without TIOCGWINSZ) of accurately (meaning that the COLUMNS and LINES 
env variables won't cut it) getting the terminal dimensions in a Konsole 
that has been started using the "-e my_program" option.  Any ideas?