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I'm connecting from PuTTY on a Windows box to a RHEL server. I like to do my work in screen, and I like a terminal window that's wider than 80 characters.

I have my PuTTY terminal set to be 120 characters wide.

When I start screen, it changes the terminal width to 80 characters.

When I do CTRL-A, W, I get, "Your termcap does not specify how to change the terminal's width to 132."

I figured this would be a reasonably quick fix with a Google search, but it turns out that I haven't been able to find the answer.

Can anyone help me configure things so that gnu-screen will use a width other than 80 characters in PuTTY?

Matthew
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RHEL defined some DEC Private Mode Reset (DECRST) sequence in the xterm initialisation and reset terminal controls switching the terminal 80 Column Mode (DECCOLM), VT100. You can verivy if they are there by command: infocmp | grep '\\E\[?[0-9;]*3;[0-9;]*l' Unfortunately screen is using either is2 or rs2 to prepare the display. I found a solution for this issue on StackExchange SuperUser here: Prevent gnu screen from resizing display size

abactor
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