Re: Intermittent error plotting images with the x11 terminal

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Or maybe hardly anyone is using x11 anymore.  I know I strongly prefer
> either wxt or qt to the x11 terminal.  I'm not saying we shouldn't fix
> this if possible, but the reality is that I view the x11 terminal as having 
> been superseded by newer, more capable terminal options.  There
> are many things that it just doesn't handle very well (font scaling,
> non-ascii encodings, transparency, anti-aliasing, ...).

I very much hope we retain full support for the x11 terminal.  x11 is
(and remains) my strongly-preferred interactive terminal for two key
reasons:
* x11 builds easily & cleanly even if 3rd-party libraries are broken
  or live in odd places
* x11 respects X resource specifications in ~/.Xdefaults
  (e.g. I have the line  "gnuplot*reverseVideo: on" there, so x11 comes
  up with a black background.  wxt ignores that and comes up with a white
  background which I find ugly.  I don't know what qt does.)

ciao,

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