BUG: Terminal xterm clips wide output

[westurner]

Description

When I run ps w (ps with the wide option so that all output should be written to the terminal), it clips the output at the terminal width; regardless of whether I pipe it to less and right arrow.

ps uw -p $(pgrep jupyter) | less

Reproduce

1. Open a terminal
2. Increase the [browser] font size to ensure that the ps output is wider than the terminal
3. Run ps uw -p $(pgrep jupyter) | less
4. Try and view the output that's wider than the terminal width

Questions:

• Is this an xterm issue?
• Is this a shell environment variable issue? (The same command works fine in a gnome-terminal; which now has fancy wrapping, though)

Expected behavior

I should see the full width terminal output; with or without piping to less (or cat, which doesn't seem to work either)

Context

• Operating System and version: Fedora fc30
• Browser and version: Firefox 68
• JupyterLab version: 1.0.5
  • (conda install jupyterlab)

[jasongrout]

This seems to work well for me on jlab 1.0.5, macOS, ff 68. First I use cat, then less and the left and right arrow keys.

Perhaps the difference here is the underlying OS. Can someone try to replicate this on linux or even better, on fedora?