Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

[snip]

> > Some other comments:
> > 
> > Right now, WXT is not copying anything to clipboard. 
> 
> Works fine here.  Full color full resolution bitmap is sent to
> clipboard. Ctrl-V in GIMP or soffice  pastes it into an open document
> or canvas.

I can confirm that. It works for me as well,
full-color etc. 

> 
> > While the Qt 
> > terminal copies so that the plot image appears in a WYSIWYG word 
> > processor, WXT terminal doesn't create anything.
> 
> [shrug] works fine for me.

Again, it works for me, but I did notice that
the graph, while on the clipboard, did now show
up in klipper or parcellite - they always showed
"empty clipboard". Since I am not too familiar
with either application, I may not fully understand
what to expect.

> 
> > Also the WXT terminal has a fixed aspect ratio where Qt terminal
> > does not.
> 
> Again not true here.   The copy/paste is just a bitmap of whatever the
> current display shows.  You can change the aspect ratio to anything
> you like either with "set term wxt size XX,YY"  or by resizing the
> open window with the mouse.
> 
> > The default pen color is now magenta where for years it was red.
> > Was that change intentional?
> 
> Very much so. 
> See, e.g. current lead story on lwn.net
> "Accessibility and the graphics stack" (may not be accessible to
> non-subscribers until next week) 
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/617594/
> 
> Or see "help set colors" in version 5rc2 or current cvs.
> 
> 	Ethan