How to prevent screen from resizing my Terminal in Mac OS X?

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I am using iTerm in Mac OS X. When I run screen, the terminal is resized and I get the message

Aborted because of window size change.

However, screen is still running.

How do I get it to stop resizing my terminal?

Peter Mortensen · Answer 1 · 2010-03-27 10:06:06Z

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This will fix the problem: Bookmarks –> Manage Profiles –> Terminal Profiles –> Default

answered Mar 8 '10 at 16:47

	Nice, this keeps me from having to figure out how the termcapinfo entry works. – Chas. Owens Mar 9 '10 at 16:13
	Your solution helped me greatly. I'm using iTerm2 on Mac OS X Lion, and the path disable session-initiated window resizing was a little different for me: Profiles -> Edit Profiles ... -> Default -> Window -> Disable session-initiated window resizing. Thank you! – mkelley33 Jan 31 at 20:11

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Chas. Owens · Answer 2 · 2010-02-26 16:55:24Z

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Based on an Ubuntu forum post on problems with screen, I found that adding

termcapinfo xterm 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'

fixes the problem, but I have yet to examine it to find out how.

answered Feb 26 '10 at 16:55

Did you discover what this magical termcap incantation does? :) – Ether Mar 2 at 23:18

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