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From: jaap@sequent.UUCP (Jaap Vermeulen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 2 bit grayscale, Visual - is it worth it?
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Date: 11 Feb 91 17:12:50 GMT
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ajk@wren.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Alan Kent) writes:

>We have a number of Visual XTurbo19 X-terminals. Aparantly there is a
>greyscale option for them. Has anyone tried them? Any feedback about
>reliability, speed etc? I have been told a lot of X software tends to
>go crazy with unusual numbers of bit plains (ie. not 1 or 8). Have
>people noticed this with 2 bit planes? In particular I am interested
>in whether MOTIF and XView make good use of the greyscales with their
>3d look.

I'm running the grayscale version. It behaves fine, is fast enough, no
problems with motif applications. You can tweek it any way you want to
using X resources. So far I only ran into one application that does not
display in grayscale but choses black and white instead. If grayscale
is worth its price, I don't know. Except that grayscale is easier on my
eyes (I use lightgray as my background color), I don't see a lot of
added benefit over B&W.  (Highlight color is easier to spot :-).

Why not try it yourself with a sinlge unit?

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