[ icewm-Bugs-1665535 ] Partially obscured xterms do not know correct size

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Bugs item #1665535, was opened at 2007-02-21 20:16
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Category: icewm-1.2
Group: behavior
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: aero_steve (aero_steve)
>Assigned to: Marko Macek (captnmark)
Summary: Partially obscured xterms do not know correct size

Initial Comment:
Each xterm that is launched when there is not enough desktop space for the complete window does not initially recognize its correct dimensions.  The xterm initially only recognizes the number of rows and columns that would not be obscured by an overlapping window.  This is also apparent using ls and
any other command that automatically wraps output lines.  The attached file shows this.
 
This problem can be corrected by resizing the window, but that is inconvenient for users. Also if there is no desktop space, i.e. existing windows completely cover 
the desktop, new windows do not have this problem.
 
By compiling and trying each version, I have confirmed this problem initially appeared in version 1.2.28 and is still in version 1.2.30.  This only became apparent 
recently when I updated from 1.2.23 to become current.  I have also tried different window managers and they do not suffer from this problem, only icewm.

This is being run in cygwin on windows XP and I have reproduced this on 3 different machines.

icewm is compiled using the following options for configure on cygwin:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var 
--datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-i18n 
--disable-nls --enable-shaped-decorations --enable-gradients --enable-antialiasing 
--enable-corefonts --disable-xinerama 
--without-gnome --without-imlib

For addition information I can be contacted at 
aer...@ya...

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