On 2016-12-22 06:06, Corey Moncure wrote: > My reason for going with the graphical display was that I suspected > gimmick terminal color settings in a graphical desktop, such as odd > fonts or transparency, could interfere with the legibility of the > output. I had only looked at the -t ascii mode, not -t ansi, which is > superior.
"-t utf8" is even better, at least in my terminal, since it uses fewer rows and easily fit within 80x24. I'd add "-m 2" as well. > The only benefits of the PNG approach are that the output ought to look > the same regardless of the environment, and the display window is > cleared very conveniently by pressing <Esc>. The drawbacks are that it > only works in a graphical windowing environment and the additional > dependency on ImageMagick. an ephemeral graphical window would be nice, and testing for $DISPLAY is simple enough (assuming X11). > With -t ansi, it is possible, but very unlikely, that terminal color > settings would result in an unreadable output. The whole screen must > be cleared if you want the output to go away. On the other hand, no > dependency and it works in plain old ttys. just a note: Control-L will clear the terminal (surprisingly many people I have met haven't discovered/learnt this.) -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game
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