[rescue] Favorite Terminals

[Brian Hechinger]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:21:53PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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>>>I get lots of crap for configuring my xterms to look like greenscreens.
>>>Sometimes I set them for amber.
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>>If I really am forced to use a colour X terminal for any length of time
>>then I try to pick a color which doesn't create artifacting or focus
>>problems with the tube mask.  Sometimes that's paper-white with black or
>>dark-grey, but sometimes I use green or some mix of green and red.  Even
>>then I end up having to take extended breaks every couple of hours.  I
>>really _LOVE_ my Sun bwtwo hi-res!  :-)
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>I want to see an XTerm that will pretend to be 24bit, but then
>converts everything to greyscale.  Once upon a time I used a VGA
>monitor like that, except at the time it wasn't hooked to a true color
>card. 
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do you *really* need 24-bit for greyscale?  12 or 16 should be more than 
plenty.

-brian

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