Bug 1085245

Created attachment 885257 [details]
bicon in 640x480

It seems bicon works fine in my box.
Attached my screenshot.

Which ncurses application did you try?

gnome-screenshot can take the screenshot:
% gnome-screenshot -i

Hay ,

I am using XFCE4 with terminator (terminal application) and mutt for my email ,

I am attaching a screenshot of before and after
I am getting it with more then one application 

the same thing occur with newsbeuter

Created attachment 888396 [details]
the bicon command befor mutt/newsbeuter

Created attachment 888397 [details]
the bicon command after mutt/newsbeuter

after I am exiting bicon and run the reset command the terminal goes back to normal size

I don't see any problems with mutt or newsbeuter.

Hay,

is there any more direction I can check to see the why my resolution is very small when working with bicon and ncurses application ?

I have no idea.
You may like to ask upstream directly:
http://projects.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=BiCon

Hi,

I have did some investigation and a notice that the $COLUMNS and $LINES have changes after I run the bicon command.
if I set them manually then the ncurses application run as it should 

me@localhost ~ $ echo $LINES
49
me@localhost ~ $ echo $COLUMNS
140 
me@localhost ~ $ bicon
BiCon started
me@localhost ~ $  echo $LINES
24
me@localhost ~ $  echo $COLUMNS
80

is there anything that can be done to preserve the right values ?

thanks in advanced

(In reply to Oren Oichman from comment #8)
> me@localhost ~ $ echo $LINES
> 49
> me@localhost ~ $ echo $COLUMNS
> 140 
> me@localhost ~ $ bicon
> BiCon started
> me@localhost ~ $  echo $LINES
> 24
> me@localhost ~ $  echo $COLUMNS
> 80

I don't see that change when bicon starts.
But I saw LINES and COLUMNS are reset when bicon exits.

I noticed $HOME/.bashrc is loaded when bicon starts.
Your login script might change that values.

BTW, bicon is a wrapper shell script and it calls bicon.bin

bicon-0.4-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bicon-0.4-1.fc19

Could you check if your problem exists in bicon 0.4?

Since no reply, I close this with the update and will integrate the new bicon in f19 too later.

bicon-0.4-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Hi,

the problem still presist

I did a workaround in the bashrc file :

[[ -z $lines ]] && export lines=$LINES
[[ -z $columns ]] && export columns=$COLUMNS

if [[ $COLUMNS != $columns ]] && [[ ! -z $columns ]] ; then export COLUMNS=$columns; fi
if [[ $LINES != $lines ]] && [[ ! -z $lines ]] ; then export  LINES=$lines; fi

for some reason the base values are 24x80

is there a why to change the defualt values

I don't see the default values in my view.
It would be good for you to file a bug in upstream since I cannot reproduce your bug:
http://projects.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=BiCon

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