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penger does not scale on gnome-terminal

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the sizing problem in gnome-terminal at a narrow width, then trace sowon's terminal rendering and resize handling. The issue's screenshots provide the expected comparison: the penger should resize correctly with its digits when the terminal width changes.

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Description

Hello,

I use sowon almost daily and love it!
I noticed, that the penger does not resize along with the digits when i resize my terminal "gnome-terminal".

Image (terminal in screenshot is ~250 pixel wide)
Image (default terminal width of ~1200 pixels wide look just fine)

Sowon was compiled with default settings

My neofetch:

OS: Linux Mint 22.2 x86_64 
Host: MS-7C91 2.0 
Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic 
Shell: bash 5.2.21 
Resolution: 2560x1440 
DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8 
WM: Mutter (Muffin) 
WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark (Mint-Y) 
Theme: Mint-Y-Dark [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Mint-Y [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: gnome-terminal 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 4.208GH 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 
Memory: 12016MiB / 15916MiB 
Dominant language
C
Stars
402
Forks
42
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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