Re: X Windows

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1u0gs9INNqja@gap.caltech.edu>, Nathan Mates writes...
> 
> X11R5 is much bigger, taking up 27 MEGS compiled, as a du on my
> University's X11R5 partition just told me.

    That's the "real" X though.  You can probably get away with some
sort of clone, like the X that runs under Linux (only about 10 megs or
so with all the libraries and fonts).

> If anyone wants to come out with a decent version of X that looks good
> despite the IIGS's resolution problem (most X terminals are 1024*768;
> the IIGS is 640*200 in a screen that has roughly half the surface area),
> and runs at a decent speed, I'd certainly buy it.

    Half the surface area?  More like 1/4 or 1/5 the surface area, not
to mention the rectangular aspect ratio would throw everything off.  If
you used dithered 640, you're back to effectively 320x200.  320x200
GIF's show up the size of a playing card on the X terms at school, i.e.:
that's how big the GS screen will be.  :(  Maybe Jason could write
JumboDesk/X for a 1280x1024 virtual desktop.  :)
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