NAME
resize - set environment and terminal settings to current xterm window size
SYNOPSIS
resize [
-v |
-u |
-c ] [
-s [
row col
] ]
DESCRIPTION
Resize prints a shell command for setting the appropriate environment
variables to indicate the current size of
xterm window from which the
command is run.
Resize determines the command through several steps:
- •
- first, it finds the name of the user's shell program. It
uses the SHELL variable if set, otherwise it uses the user's data
from /etc/passwd.
- •
- then it decides whether to use Bourne shell syntax or
C-Shell syntax. It uses a built-in table of known shells, which can be
overridden by the -u and -c options.
- •
- then resize asks the operating system for the
terminal settings. This is the same information which can be manipulated
using stty.
- •
- then resize asks the terminal for its size in
characters. Depending on whether the " -s option is given,
resize uses a different escape sequence to ask for this
information.
- •
- at this point, resize attempts to update the
terminal settings to reflect the terminal window's size in pixels:
- •
- if the -s option is used, resize then asks
the terminal for its size in pixels.
- •
- otherwise, resize asks the operating system for the
information and updates that after ensuring that the window's dimensions
are a multiple of the character height and width.
- •
- in either case, the updated terminal settings are done
using a different system call than used for stty.
- •
- then resize updates the terminal settings to reflect
any altered values such as its size in rows or columns. This affects the
values shown by stty.
- •
- finally, resize writes the shell command for setting
the environment variables to the standard output.
EXAMPLES
For resize's output to take effect,
resize must either be evaluated as
part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or function) or else
redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually
known as
/bin/csh), the following alias could be defined in the user's
.cshrc:
% alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
After resizing the window, the user would type:
% rs
Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as
/bin/sh) that
don't have command functions will need to send the output to a temporary file
and then read it back in with the “.” command:
$ resize > /tmp/out
$ . /tmp/out
OPTIONS
The following options may be used with
resize:
- -c
- This option indicates that C shell commands should be
generated even if the user's current shell is not /bin/csh.
- -s [rows columns]
- This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences
will be used instead of the VT100-style xterm escape codes. If
rows and columns are given, resize will ask the
xterm to resize itself using those values.
- Both of the escape sequences used for this option (first to
obtain the window size and second to modify it) are subject to
xterm's allowWindowOps resource setting. The window manager
may also choose to disallow the change.
- The VT100-style escape sequence used to determine the
screen size always works for VT100-compatible terminals. VT100s have no
corresponding way to modify the screensize.
- -u
- This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be
generated even if the user's current shell is not /bin/sh.
- -v
- This causes resize to print a version number to the
standard output, and then exit.
Note that the Sun console escape sequences are recognized by XFree86
xterm and by
dtterm. The
resize program may be installed
as
sunsize, which causes makes it assume the
-s option.
The
rows and
columns arguments must appear last; though they are
normally associated with the
-s option, they are parsed separately.
FILES
- /etc/termcap
- for the base termcap entry to modify.
- ~/.cshrc
- user's alias for the command.
ENVIRONMENT
- SHELL
- Resize determines the user's current shell by first
checking if $SHELL is set, and using that. Otherwise it determines
the user's shell by looking in the password file (/etc/passwd). Generally
Bourne-shell variants (including ksh) do not modify $SHELL,
so it is possible for resize to be confused if one runs
resize from a Bourne shell spawned from a C shell.
- TERM
- Resize sets this to "xterm" if not already
set.
- TERMCAP
- Resize sets this variable on systems using termcap,
e.g., when resize is linked with the termcap library rather than a
terminfo library. The latter does not provide the complete text for
a termcap entry.
- COLUMNS, LINES
- Resize sets these variables on systems using
terminfo. Many applications (including the curses library) use those
variables when set to override their screensize.
SEE ALSO
use_env(3x)
csh(1), stty(1), tset(1)
xterm(1)
AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Thomas Dickey (invisible-island.net).
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium
See
X(7) for a complete copyright notice.