A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.

  • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Mine is 226… Often when writing code people will adhere to max line widths such as 80 or 100. However, if you are writing a script, why not just get the width in the script and render based on that? For example stty size, tput cols or echo "$COLUMNS".

    • christos@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thx, if many users respond with less than 140, I will need to find a solution involving truncating strings and using tput cols

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My laptop is 192x54 in the virtual terminal and 190x47 in Gnome Terminal.

    Whatever program you write definitely needs to support an 80 column display though. A 5" phone screen is going to need a much larger font than a 14" laptop screen.

    • christos@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks. The ideal should be 140 chars. I will work out truncating the torrent name column in order for everything to fit in 80 char terminals, although it would not be very functional.