Summary: | characters are lost when resizing konsole window | ||
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Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: | lost characters |
Description
Eduardo Robles Elvira
2004-02-07 18:47:48 UTC
Yes, this is a strange behavior in konsole. Looks kindy funny when you resize to a bigger width. xterm has the same behavior. It looks like konsole should redraw the image upon window size change. Kurt. V. Hindenburg: Please, can you marjk this as confirmed or something ? =) Interesting. Why not a wordwrapping feature? ie. you resize down the window and the characters that would become hidden are pushed to the line below, as it's done in KWrite when resizing the window! Would be useful if you start a 80*40 terminal, enter a command and then discover the output is big: resize the window up and text is worwrapped in a beautiful way, displaying data (eg. mysql table output) as the developer wanted it would ideally. Yes, geeks can argue it's not usual for UNIX users that the console is wordwrapped, but please get back your earlier eyes, when computers was more a magic than a "easy"/"under control" science, when every features you discovered was new and exciting: When I discovered that terminal wasn't wordrapped it seemed very strange to me, and quite broken. Of course, since then I'm used a lot of computers and I find it normal. But that's a wrong assumption: we were forced to think wordwrapping is not natural on terminals. Created attachment 15782 [details]
lost characters
This bug is still/again in kde 3.5.2.
Note that characters farther up (off screen when you're not scrolled up) are
not lost.
this is not a wish but a bug. The wordwrap is a wish, but it's not this bug. Fixed with SVN commit #571962 (will appear in KDE 4). I haven't implemented the word-wrap idea, just allowed lines to "remember" characters that no longer fit on the screen when you resize the window to make it smaller. The reason this used to happen in Konsole is probably the same reason it happens in Xterm. Konsole used to store the current screen image in one big chunk of contiguous memory - which means that all lines on the screen always had to be the same length, so characters were lost when resizing the window to make it smaller. |