Window managers

[Matt Graham]

Sean <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Strangely enough, I've been finding X much more usable on my new
>> laptop than on my desktop.  I think it has something to do with
>> the screen itself.  I find it really hard to stare at bright
>> white windows on a CRT, but not nearly so bad on this TFT.  Maybe
>> the TFT just looks more like a sheet of paper, with less "glow"
>> than a CRT.

This is why konsole and Eterm have the "linux console" color scheme.  Mmm,
gray (or green!) text on black background.  Seriously, anyone who spends much
time within xterms may wish to check out konsole; its "virtual terminal within
a window" approach doesn't do anything screen doesn't do, but is almost as
addictive as virtual desktops.

As for Ben's "Emacs with an embedded X-server", what about porting all the X
widgets in there to GTK/Framebuffer?  Yes, it'd be a royal pain to do that,
but just think if you could run Emacs on your embedded device....

> Now you know why people spend $$$ for trinitron monitors *ducks*
> (personally i like trinitron better than lcd but lcd is starting to 
> close the gap my next monitor will probably be an lcd.)

I have yet to see an LCD that can reproduce the color gamut that's available
on even a mid-quality CRT.  (OK, maybe the last 2 laptops I've owned have had
cheap LCDs.)  Also, multiple resolutions on an LCD leave something to be
desired.  No, I can't run everything at 1024x768 all the time; xmame has much
less lag at "normal" size which is almost impossible to see at that res. 
512x384 would be great, but this @#$% Neomagic 256 doesn't seem to like any
modeline I've tried there and will only do 640x480 with blotchy
hardware-assisted screen stretching.

And what about Quake?  How are you going to get k3wl framer4t3z and still be
able to frag reasonably well if your monitor is either at 1024x768 or a
horribly blotchy 640x480?  (Note:  I don't even like Quake3, just making the
point that gamers buy more hardware than Joe User...)

-- 
Matt G / Dances With Crows
There is no Darkness in Eternity
But only Light too dim for us to see

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