[BRLTTY] Re: Odd numbers of braille cells

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Sun 02 Oct 2005 23:14:20 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2005/10/02 at 21:56 +0200]
> 
> >Maybe we could add a hook in the linux screen driver which would call
> >ioctl(0, TIOCSWINSZ, {ws_row=24, ws_col=70}) itself ?
> 
> I don't think it'd be a good idea to automatically change a user's settings
> like that. There could, in theory, be a brltty option which would do something
> like set the screen width to a reasonable multiple of the display width, but
> that, too, could have problems. For example, some applications mightn't respond
> well to the resize. Graphical applications probably handle SIGWINCH correctly,
> but I'm not sure that text-mode applications (using something like curses) do.

They usually do. I've never seen a text-mode application using the full
screen not handling SIGWINCH. Remember that people usually use Xwindow
and like to expand their xterms, so that developpers usually think to
handle SIGWINCH

Regards,
Samue