Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
>> ksh needs to be made aware that the window size has changed. Normally
>> xterm should send a SIGWINCH... but somehow this doesn't happen.
>> Hmm, something to look into.
>
> Now that I've looked, I see that I was mistaken. ksh *is* sent a
> SIGWINCH. However, it won't take the new window width into account
> until the input line after the current one...
>
>> You can manually tell ksh to pick up the new window size with
>> "kill -WINCH $$".
>
> ... so just pressing return does the trick, too.

This did not work for me. I made konsole window as wude asmy screen
but ksh still printed only partial lines about half the width of
the screen. I think I will disable pwd in the prompt when pwd gets long.

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