Re: tiling changes accidental

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:51:13PM +0100, Ralph Müller wrote:
> Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:10:05AM +0100, Ralph Mller wrote:
> > > But in some xterm-"windows" mc has only about half the size. 
> > ...
> > I suppose this is the some old xterm problem and is the result of
> > a race condition in xterm. (Also happens with some other programs,
> > e.g. LyX.) However, the problem has been fixed in the latest
> > XFree86 CVS version of xterm.
> are u sure that's a bug in xterm?
> Today i tried it with aterm and there is the same problem. 
> 
> How do u deal with this problem? Do u use the mentioned latest
> version of xterm? Or do u know a workaround?

i think this is a race somewhere in the client's setup code, when it
has to handle a geometry it did not expect, but this is just a wild
guess.

whenever i face this problem i just resize the frame a tiny bit; that
makes the window-manager send a new X configure event to the xterm
and xterm then generates SIGWINCH signals and the programs can
reinit/repaint their screen. ncurses for instance supports this.
this never failed for me; sometimes i have to repeat the process a few
times though, until xterm gets it right.

regards,
  -lukas