#640749 debconf: Does not display correctly in non 80x24/5 terminal

Package:
whiptail
Source:
newt
Description:
Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
Submitter:
Daniel Dickinson
Date:
2011-09-07 15:03:30 UTC
Severity:
normal
#640749#5
Date:
2011-09-07 00:39:46 UTC
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The Dialog frontend is not resizing to fit inside the current window when on a terminal other than 80x25.  This under screen inside an xfce4-terminal window.
#640749#10
Date:
2011-09-07 15:00:44 UTC
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reassign 640749 whiptail
thanks

Daniel Dickinson wrote:

This can be reproduced in any terminal emulator (I tried 3) with:

whiptail --msgbox foo 10 10

So it must be a bug in whiptail, ignoring the SIGWINCH.