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

[<tim...@en...>]

> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>> 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 i=
n
>>>>>gnuplot_x11 is
>>>>>
>>>>>static unsigned int gW =3D 640, gH =3D 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.
>
> That's is fine.
>
>>     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
>
> That's not so nice

I have heard you, guys. It looks like the old and well-known behaviour of
the x11 terminal has more weight than my little ideas about aspect ratios.
Give me a couple of days and I'll revert the behaviour of the wxt termina=
l
to make it work as the x11 one does.

Timoth=E9e