On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:47:54 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: >Xwindows is used by Linux because it had been developed widely and was >common on Unix when Linux came into popular view. > One thing that Xwindows got wrong was exposing the bit pitch in the API. A co-worker lamented that on his new Mac with Retina display his X windows shrank to postage stamp size. Somehow, it's better nowadays.
(PostScript coordinates are typographer's points, regardless of device resolution. But I listened to an IPDS partisan laud that protocol for letting him address individual pels.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
