Letting Vim change the window size

[chdiza]

In uxterm, I can change the size of the terminal window "automatically" when I set &rows or &columns inside of Vim. I've had mappings since my macOS days that do things like :set columns=75 lines=24 in Vim. If the terminal window is not 75 columns or not 24 rows, then the Vim window and the terminal window both get made into 75x24. I got accustomed to this on macOS, where Terminal.app and iTerm2 both allow this. Now that I've switched to linux, it appears that uxterm allows this but kitty does not.

Is there a kitty setting that can allow the program running inside kitty to change the window size?

[kovidgoyal]

No there isnt. Windows cannot generally be resized freely. They are amanged by layouts and kitty OS Windows themeselves may not be resizable if you use a tiling window manager.

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On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 11:04:51AM -0800, chdiza wrote: In `uxterm`, I can change the size of the terminal window "automatically" when I set `&rows` or `&columns` inside of Vim. I've had mappings since my macOS days that do things like `:set columns=75 lines=24` in Vim. If the terminal window is not 75 columns or not 24 rows, then the Vim window *and* the terminal window both get made into 75x24. I got accustomed to this on macOS, where Terminal.app and iTerm2 both allow this. Now that I've switched to linux, it appears that `uxterm` allows this but kitty does not. Is there a kitty setting that can allow the program running inside kitty to change the window size? -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #4206

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[chdiza]

OK, thanks for the answer.

In awesome-wm, I can freely resize kitty's "os windows". So I'll just use that instead of using Vim mappings; they both take me to the same place in the end.