resize command?

riskable · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: resize command?

I've just installed Gentoo using a serial console and as far as I can tell Gentoo does not have a "resize" command. Back in the day I used to use "resize" on Solaris to automatically set the proper number of rows/columns for my current terminal.

Is there anything like "resize" for Gentoo? Perhaps it is buried in some sort of ebuild somewhere or perhaps there's an equivalent?

I know Red Hat 9 used to have a resize command.
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nephros · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject:

Hm, "reset" usually restores the terminal to correct values. If that fails, you can tweak things manually with stty(1), e.g. "stty cols 80 rows 26"

Also, in bash, setting "shopt -s checkwinsize" should cause all applications to always know the correct terminal layout.

Probably not what you were looking for, HTH anyway.

[EDIT:]Hah! Found it.
/usr/bin/resize is provided (in redhat and gentoo) by the xterm package.
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riskable · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject:

Aha! Thank you!

Now the question is: How do I get xterm to emerge without X?

I'm guessing: emerge --oneshot xterm
(but will it actually compile without X?)
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nephros · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:03 am Post subject:

You can't. Xterm obviously depends on X, no way around that.
Even if you tell emerge not to pull in depenedencies, the compilation will still fail....

I extracted the tarball and took a look at the resize source, but that depends on X too.
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