Linux Client Displayed Rows

[KMoody]

The Linux client appears to have a fixed number of rows on screen. Is there a startup parameter that allows us to change this number?

 

[TheMadDBA]

The rows and columns will be set by the following...

Linux settings/stty for the terminal type you are using (rows and columns)
The settings in the $DLC/protermcap file for the terminal type you are using (li# and co#)

I "think" the protermcap settings can/will override the linux settings but I always set them to the same values

 

[TomBascom]

Depends on the OS and the protermcap entry for your terminal type. Linux allows the "ws" attribute in protermcap which will use the runtime sizing of the window. That does not work on all operating systems -- AIX springs to mind. There you have to have specific protermcap entries for every terminal geometry that you want to use.

In no case does Progress respond to a terminal window being resized after Progress has started -- window size is always fixed at startup.

 

[trx]

I think it is worth mentioning that Progress can resize terminal window. So you can have for example in your protermcap file definitions for linux terminal: :li#25, :co#80 and for example linux-wide :li#25, :co#132 and by changing TERM you can resize window (I guess that also require proper client, but at least it works with Putty).
TERM="linux-wide" and you have 132 columns, TERM="linux" and you are back to 80 columns.