Can a script resize it's own mintty console?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I'm looking for finer granularity than the 20 ANSI escape sequence screen modes. What I'd like to do is have the terminal increase it's own height when I have to show the user a long menu.

Platform is Cygwin 64 running over Win 7 Pro.

Mike

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You could start another terminal window and define its size by options.
Other than that, best you could achieve, is to virtualy de-/increase width/columns. (COLUMNS=30)

terminal-appnamel --geometry=240x50

hth

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This worth a try if it is rows and columns.

#!/bin/bash
# Set window size down to 66 cols x 32 rows, not tested on mintty but worth a try...
printf "\x1B[8;32;66t"
# Write into the title bar; this DOES work on mintty...
printf "\x1B]0;This is a title name.\x07"

EDIT:
ALSO...
You could put either or both those two lines into your .bash_profile as CygWin uses bash by default.
Assuming mintty can accept the first 'printf' line then it will start up with your choice of rows and columns.

EDIT 2:
The above edit works on 64 bit cygwin using Windows 8.1.

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Thanks but does not work in mintty.

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[quote=wisecracker;302944157]
This worth a try if it is rows and columns.

#!/bin/bash
# Set window size down to 66 cols x 32 rows, not tested on mintty but worth a try...
printf "\x1B[8;32;66t"
# Write into the title bar; this DOES work on mintty...
printf "\x1B]0;This is a title name.\x07"

Both work on mintty. Thank you. Where can I learn more about these sequences? I have not seen widow size or title bar documented anywhere and wonder how many more there are.

Mike

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You can read about quite a few of them here Xterm Control Sequences

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