Re: Debian Well Underway

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:09AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Even so, vga=extended
> wouldn't yield me 50 lines either.  Yet when I come into my box from a
> remote ssh session, I use vt220 emulation and I get 42 rows and 111
> columns.  I just can't seem to figure out how to do that with a linux
> console.  While on the ssh session, $TERM shows VT220; while at home
> locally, $TERM shows linux.

This is because when in an ssh session, the screen size you get
depends on the client, not on the server. So, if you're sitting at a
machine that is configured for a larger screen, and you ssh into a
machine from there which isn't configured for a larger screen, you
will still get the larger screen size in your ssh session, because of
the configuration of the machine in front of which you're actually
sitting presently.

Greg


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