Mender-connect - Remote Terminal - Increase terminal height and width

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The Remote terminal is quite small (width 70, height 25).

I tried modifying /etc/mender-connect.conf and restarting mender-connect.service

cat /etc/mender/mender-connect.conf 
{
  "ShellCommand": "/bin/bash",
  "Terminal": {
    "Disable": false,
    "Height": 43,
    "Width": 132
  },
  "User": "user"
}

But the above does not seem to affect the terminal size when accessed via mender.io - Troubleshooting - Remote terminal.

How do I go about increasing the height (rows) and width (cols) of the remote terminal? The remote system is Debian-based.

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I have noticed this as well. The Troubleshoot window used to be very useful, but it is now really hard to effectively use the remote terminal because of its tiny dimensions.

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Hi @bssi and @alpinemedia,

Thanks for the report. We have just rolled out a new release which should fix this. Please let us know if you still experience the problem now.

Greetz,
Josef

4

It’s definitely better to have the console wider, as it is now, but I seem to remember the window showing more lines. Is there some way to change or configure this, as it takes up a very small amount of the available space on a desktop monitor.

Was the change here to allow upload/download without leaving the terminal session? It seems like there must be some way to accommodate that (with a flyover, perhaps) without giving up so much screen real estate to what I’m not currently doing.

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Here’s what the Troubleshoot interface looks like to me:

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If my user goal is to have an open terminal session on a remote device, only a very small part of this screen (already limited by the fact that a screen I’ve navigated away from takes up 33% of the viewport width) is used for my goal.

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@TheYoctoJester The new release has definitely improved it. I agree with the comments from @alpinemedia .