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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Apple Terminal
Date: 17:14 on 24 Nov 2004
Grrr. Not only can't it do xterm quite correctly, but it has this really
stupid resizing issue:

I have an external display plugged in. The menu bar moves to the display, as
I have configured things to be. Because of this, I have room for a 63 row
terminal on the laptop display.

I unplug the external display. The menu bar returns to the laptop display, as
is expected. There's no longer room for a 63 row terminal window, but a 61
would fit.

Does terminal resize to a 61 row window?

FUCK NO!

It resizes to something totally BRAINDEAD. About the smallest size the window
manager would let it. 4x4, or that's what it feels like. Chelsea Tractor size.

So I have to pull the thing back out to a sensible size. Little pile of shit.

And you realise what's so utterly HATEFUL about this? If I minimise the
terminal, THEN unplug the external display, then unminimse the terminal,
it goes "uh oh, I don't fit!" and NEATLY RESIZES ITSELF TO 61 ROWS.

You've just proved that you are capable of the right thing. So why not
JUST FUCKING DO IT all the time? Crap.

If I wanted this level of stupidity, I'd be using Windows telnet. Let's not
go there.

Nicholas Clark

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