x11 terminal size (was Re: tiny fonts with wxt term)

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:03 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> My alteration was just a proof of concept, 
> hence I didn't put together any formal patch.  
> A proper attempt can be made, and should be in my opinion.   
> > 
> >> The ramifications of that are not that important right now, but I do 
> >> wonder why if x11.trm assumes 4096 by 4096 the default window size in 
> >> gnuplot_x11 is
> >>
> >> static unsigned int gW = 640, gH = 450;

Can we just drop this discussion?
I don't think it is going in any useful direction.

(1) You are talking about the output of "test", which doesn't go
    through any of the normal scaling routines nor any of the plot
    layout code.

(2) I *like* the behavior of the x11 terminl window.
    It dynamically resizes the plot to fit the current
    window size, which is exactly what I want and expect.
    By way of contrast, the wxt terminal is very annoying in
    that after resizing the window, the plot it contains fills
    only some non-obvious fraction of the new size

As to 4096x4096, that is the resolution to which the terminal
coordinates are kept.   The anti-aliasing would be improved if
it were increased to some larger value, but that turns out to be
messy.  I tried it at one point, but gave it up because I broke
too many things in the process.  I'm sure it's possible, but it's
non-trivial.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742