[SOLVED] Do not crop text in terminal when not maximized

bulletproof.rs · 10-01-2018, 03:50 PM

Don't know how would i even name the subject. But, basically, when i use terminal in regular size and i issue some command that would output long lines, for example "ps u", it will not display whole row of course. But. When i maximize the screen, it will still not display the entire line, but i would have to run the command again to get it to display.

Basically what im looking for is horizontal scrollbar, not just vertical.
It worked fine on gnome but not in cinnamon.

I'm using Fedora 28 and, again , Cinnamon desktop.

To show, it would display the lines like this, if i were to run "ps u" on regular size and then maximize it.

Code:

mtodoric  2502  0.0  0.8 1006300 72828 tty2    Sl+  22:10   0:00 /usr/share/skyp
mtodoric  2514  0.5  2.7 3981796 227688 tty2   Sl+  22:10   0:10 /usr/share/skyp
mtodoric  2559  0.0  0.0 227596  6124 tty2     S+   22:10   0:00 /usr/bin/python
mtodoric  2560  0.0  0.5 866768 48636 tty2     Sl+  22:10   0:01 cinnamon-screen
mtodoric  2561  0.0  0.5 852184 44024 tty2     Sl+  22:10   0:00 /usr/bin/python
mtodoric  2605  0.0  0.0 249196  7968 tty2     S+   22:10   0:00 /usr/bin/python
mtodoric  2607  0.0  0.0 211240   936 tty2     S+   22:10   0:00 /usr/sbin/rfkil
mtodoric  2702  0.4  0.5 1370132 46092 tty2    Sl+  22:10   0:09 nemo-desktop
mtodoric  5960  0.3  1.1 5568352 95836 tty2    Sl+  22:25   0:04 java -jar Syste
mtodoric  6257  4.2  3.5 3993220 289116 tty2   Sl+  22:25   0:47 /opt/viber/Vibe
mtodoric  6269  0.0  0.4 521536 34480 tty2     S+   22:25   0:00 /opt/viber/QtWe
mtodoric  6271  0.0  0.0 521536  6460 tty2     S+   22:25   0:00 /opt/viber/QtWe
mtodoric  6444 10.8  5.4 2664476 443972 tty2   Sl+  22:28   1:43 /usr/lib64/fire
mtodoric  6544  2.5  2.0 2086240 169300 tty2   Sl+  22:28   0:24 /usr/lib64/fire
mtodoric  6640  0.0  0.3 487688 27908 tty2     Sl+  22:28   0:00 /usr/bin/python
mtodoric  6649  1.8  2.4 2036576 196468 tty2   Sl+  22:28   0:17 /usr/lib64/fire
mtodoric  6719  0.1  1.4 1896164 120772 tty2   Sl+  22:29   0:01 /usr/lib64/fire
mtodoric  7179  0.0  0.0 220580  5844 pts/0    Ss   22:33   0:00 bash

It pretty much had cut the text to the length of the terminal.

If I'm not making lot of sense tell me, i will upload a screenshot

Thanks in advance !

bulletproof.rs · 10-01-2018, 04:04 PM

Well, seems like bumping stty columns to a higher value will do the trick. Just don't know how that got reset when i installed cinnamon.

Let me know if you have any other ideas but this seems to work fine

syg00 · 10-01-2018, 06:31 PM

Well, it depends. On the emulator maybe, and on the command maybe. Some commands are aware of the context in which they are called. Try "ps -uww" (that's 2 w's).
As for re-flow on redraw that should be an option for the emulator, but will depend on which one.

ondoho · 10-02-2018, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bulletproof.rs

for example "ps u", it will not display whole row of course. But. When i maximize the screen, it will still not display the entire line, but i would have to run the command again to get it to display.

i can reproduce this with ps, but other commands do not do it this way.
so in my experience this is command specific, not terminal specific.

bulletproof.rs · 10-02-2018, 08:32 AM

Weird. Used to work fine on gnome. But nevermind, ever since I've bumped stty column variable, it works as intended

Thanks everyone for feedback !

fatmac · 10-02-2018, 11:19 AM

Check your terminal configs, you may be able to set a horizontal scroll bar there.