Terminal window truncating output

Thomas Eriksson thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu
Sun Jan 25 20:06:46 CET 2015


On 01/25/2015 03:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:18:07 +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote:
>> ps ux is a good commamd for testing.
>> It does NOT wrap with xterm. roxterm and xfce4-terminal on my PC.
> 
> We don't need to test xterm and vte ;). I guess most of us will use
> xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal, roxterm and similar, btw. ...
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu konsole
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ konsole
> 
> For "ps ux" there's the same issue when using konsole.
> 

Haven't tried all these terminals, but "ps ux" is not a good test.
The ps command checks the terminal width and truncates the output
accordingly, unless you also use the "w" or "ww" parameter.








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