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SSH terminal automatic resizing

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Ubuntu installations (12.04 and 14.04) from the mini.iso (and not on Server or Desktop versions) result in the host providing terminal session that do not automatically resize themselves to the same size of the client when one SSHs into them. This can be seen below:

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This is noticeable on Rackspace cloud Ubuntu servers as well as KVM instances that I have deployed myself.

One can workaround the issue by installing xterm and running the command resize manually every time you resize your terminal.

Does anybody know what packages I need to install/configure to have the host act like the Server and Desktop installations whereby there is automatic adjustment?

Update

I discovered that for my local KVM setup, I only got this effect when connecting with sudo virsh console $VM_ID and not when I SSH into the virtual machine. However this problem still persists with Rackspace VMs. I just tried again today (25th May 2014) and easily noticeable when you open VIM.

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answered 2 Years ago leddre · Accepted Answer

See SSH doesn't resize terminal. The user reported that the problem was fixed when he upgraded to gnome-terminal-3.12.1.

To install the new version in 14.04:

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte3/libvte-2.90-common_0.36.2-1ubuntu1~trusty1_all.deb

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte3/libvte-2.90-9_0.36.2-1ubuntu1~trusty1_amd64.deb

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_3.12.1-0ubuntu1~trusty1_all.deb

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.12.1-0ubuntu1~trusty1_amd64.deb

dpkg -i libvte-2.90-common_0.36.2-1ubuntu1~trusty1_all.deb

dpkg -i libvte-2.90-9_0.36.2-1ubuntu1~trusty1_amd64.deb

dpkg -i gnome-terminal-data_3.12.1-0ubuntu1~trusty1_all.deb

dpkg -i gnome-terminal_3.12.1-0ubuntu1~trusty1_amd64.deb

And to uninstall (change the versions to match the latest found in the archive.ubuntu.com repository):

# apt-cache madison gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data libvte-2.90 libvte-2.90-common

gnome-terminal | 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

gnome-terminal | 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main Sources

gnome-terminal-data | 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

gnome-terminal | 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main Sources

libvte-2.90-dev | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

libvte-2.90-9 | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

libvte-2.90-doc | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

libvte-2.90-common | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

libvte-2.90-common | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

      vte3 | 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main Sources

# apt-get install gnome-terminal=3.6.2-0ubuntu1 gnome-terminal-data=3.6.2-0ubuntu1 libvte-2.90-9=1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 libvte-2.90-common=1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:

  gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data libvte-2.90-9 libvte-2.90-common