[Konsole-devel] Determining terminal dimensions in Konsole

[Robert Knight]

> but unfortunately it did not get any attention.
> (after six months you tend to give up hope :P)

I'm afraid I'm not able to promise when I'll get around to looking at
the report you posted.  However, you're welcome to compile Konsole
from source yourself and investigate what is happening.  That would be
the most sure-fire way to ensure it gets dealt with.

Regards,
Robert.

On 8 February 2010 09:00, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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?
>
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