Ncurses programs insist on using only 80x24 on my text terminal that can show 132x50.
Why is that? Where does tput find this info and how do I fix it?
% echo $LINES $COLUMNS
% tput -T hds3200-w50 cols
80
% tput -T hds3200-w50 lines
24
% infocmp hds3200-w50
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /home/monnier/.terminfo/h/hds3200-w50
hds3200-w50|Human Designed Systems HDS3200 model 20; VT220 7bits; 50x132; auto-wrap=no,
mir, xenl, xon,
cols#132, lines#50, vt#3,
acsc=jjkkllmmnnqqttuuvvwwxx, bel=^G, blink=\E[5m$<2>,
bold=\E[1m$<2>, civis=\E[?25l, clear=\E[H\E[2J$<50>,
cnorm=\E[?25h, cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub1=^H,
cud1=\E[B, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH$<10>,
cuu1=\E[A, dch1=\E[P, dl1=\E[M, ed=\E[J$<50>, el=\E[K$<3>,
home=\E[H, ht=^I, if=/usr/share/tabset/vt100, il1=\E[L,
ind=\ED$<20/>, is2=\E[1;24r\E[24;1H, kbs=^H, kcmd=\E[17~,
kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kdl1=\E[3~,
kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[11~, kf11=\E[12~, kf12=\E[13~,
kf13=\E[14~, kf14=\E[15~, kf17=\E[18~, kf18=\E[19~,
kf19=\E[20~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[21~, kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS,
kf6=\E[7~, kf7=\E[8~, kf8=\E[9~, kf9=\E[10~, kfnd=\E[1~,
khlp=\E[16~, kil1=\E[2~, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~, kslt=\E[4~,
lf1=pf1, lf2=pf2, lf3=pf3, lf4=pf4, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m$<2>,
rf=/usr/share/tabset/vt100, ri=\EM$<14/>,
rmacs=\E(B$<4>, rmam=\E[?7l, rmir=\E[4l, rmso=\E[27m,
rmul=\E[24m, rs2=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h,
rs3=\E[?3h, sc=\E7,
sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;m%?%p9%t\E(0%e\E(B%;,
sgr0=\E[m$<2>, smacs=\E(0$<2>, smam=\E[?7h, smir=\E[4h,
smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
%
As you can see, my Terminfo file specifies cols#132 and lines#50 yet tput seems to ignore those. strace shows that tput does read my ~/.terminfo/h/hds3200-w50 as it should, yet it's not reflected in the output.
What am I doing wrong? Where should I look?
