Detecting Window Resizing

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.russ.ru
Fri Jun 30 03:37:15 EDT 2000


On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, C. Porter Bassett wrote:
> Is it possible in python to detect when the virtual console that a curses
> program is running in is re-sized.  My program checks to see the size of
> the window to know how much it can draw, but it still gives me a
> segmentation fault if I shrink the window down.  I am running this on
> linux.

   Terminal emulator will send you SIGWINCH (signal for window changing)
upon resizing. Catch the signal...

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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