Re: [dwm] xterm forgets its contents upon resize

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Andy Gimblett wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> Not strictly a dwm question but it's hit me for the first time in the
> context of using dwm, and it's _kinda_ putting me off dwm, so I
> wondered if anyone else has been bugged by this and/or knows a way
> round it:
>
> Suppose I have three xterms open, in an arrangement such as:
>
> +---------+-----+
> | | |
> | | B |
> | | |
> | A +-----+
> | | |
> | | C |
> | | |
> +---------+-----+
>
> Suppose A contains a whole load of text - maybe I've just cat'd a big
> text file, or something. Now, if I swap A and B, then restore A, the
> result is that A has "forgotten" or lost most of its textual content -
> it's mostly blank. It appears that this happens when it shrinks, and
> the restore is not enough to cause it to redraw nicely.
>
> Is this just a "feature" of the xterm I'm using (X.Org 6.9.0(213)
> xterm under FreeBSD)? Is there something I can do to stop this
> happening? Other clients handle this much better (for example emacs,
> or even a shell inside an "emacs -nw" inside an xterm!). At the
> moment it's putting me off dwm a bit, though I don't really think it'
> dwm's fault... :-[)
>
> I hope my explanation makes sense (I can make screenshots if you
> like), and that this isn't a too stupid question. I couldn't see
> anything about it in the xterm faq or man page...

This is an annoyance in xterm, check if running the cat within a
screen helps (this is a trick of larswm).

Regards,

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