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Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:17:48 -0700 |
James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> David> Actually, it does not make sense to scale in that way. #3a7
> David> really should be the same as #3333aaaa7777, so that #fff is the
> David> same as #ffffffffffff, pure white.
>
> David> Somebody should tell the X people to do that.
>
> I beleive I recall this coming up on the xfree lists some years back,
> and further beleive that the current codebase of both xfree and xorg
> do in fact scale the way David recomends.
>
> It is likely that only the docs are out of date.
>
> It is certainly the case that the colours named by xmag(1x) when you
> click on a pixel in its window show the replicated pattern, and I tend
> to use the #rrggbb convention for specifying colours....
Great! Thanks, I think this is the info we needed.
I tried xmag on both solaris2.8 and Fedora Core 3 and indeed it seems
that the conversion it uses is Y -> YY (where Y is 8bit).
Eli, do you agree to go this way?
--dan
- face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, David Kastrup, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, James Cloos, 2005/04/07
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/08
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/08
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/09
Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/06
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- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, David Kastrup, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/04/06
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/07
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, David Kastrup, 2005/04/07
- Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/07