Automatic Screen Size Manipulation

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hello. Is there a way to programatically maximize a unix window? I am using X term and the scripts shows menus that need to fit within a specific screen size. I want to detect the screen size and advise the user to maximize thier screen if less than what is needed to correctly show the menus.

Thanks.

2

It's not possible to automatically resize the window and still be portable. I do know that the rows and columns can be read though.

If you can use C:

// Must link in libcurses.so with -lcurses to use curses
#include <curses.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  int x=-1, y=-1;
  WINDOW *w=initscr();
  if(w == NULL)
    return(1);

  x=w->_maxx - w->_curx;
  y=w->_maxy - w->_cury;

  endwin();

  printf("Console is %d x %d\n",x,y);

  return(0);
}