Hello,
This has become more problematic lately as I'm working quite a bit in minicom. I have a wide monitor and take advantage of this by setting Options->Properties->Appearance->Size and Behavior to 141 columns and 35 rows.
When I'm running minicom, those dimensions don't change, but as soon as I exit back to the shell, the columns change from 141 to 80:
I've tried going to Options->Reset Terminal and this changes the screen to my default black letters on a white background, but the size is still 80 columns and 35 rows.
When this happens, I close the session and have to remember to choose "No" when prompted with, "The current connection file has been modified and has not been saved. Do you want to save this file before you exit?"
When the Appearance setting says, "Scale font, keep rows and columns FIXED", to me this means it should stay "fixed" at 141 x 35 no matter what escape sequence is emitted by the running program.
When the behavior is set to "fixed", can AT ignore a program's escape sequence that changes the number of columns? Or is there some other work around?