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From: "caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人" <toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:41:26
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text? by Michael
1 yes, both use urxvt.
2
3 gentoo's is x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r8::gentoo
4
5 enabled use flags:
6 256-color blink font-styles gdk-pixbuf
7 mousewheel perl startup-notification unicode3
8 utmp wtmp xft
9
10 not enabled use flags:
11 -24-bit-color -fading-colors -iso14755
12 -sgrmouse
13
14 ty,
15 cm.
16
17 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
18 On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 09:33, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote:
19
20 > On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:04:19 BST caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote:
21 >
22 > > hi. when i open newsboat in a small window, it
23 > > fills it with text, and eats the remaining text
24 > > as expected (so that there is a single news item
25 > > per line. fine).
26 > > but:
27 > > 1. on arch linux's package, when i enlarge the
28 > > window, more text automatically shows. nice.
29 > >
30 > > 2. on gentoo linux's installation, when i do
31 > > the same as arch's, text is still eaten, so i
32 > > end up manually redrawing the terminal.
33 > >
34 > >
35 > > any idea how should i move from here to figure out
36 > > what's the cause?
37 > > (more info in appendix below)
38 > > ty,
39 > > cm.
40 >
41 > Are you using the same terminal in both OS? I have found terminals use
42 > different mechanisms to flow/redraw lines, as long as the application output
43 > allows it, with urxvt being better in this respect than xterm. However, I've
44 > not used newsboat to have observed how it behaves within urxvt.