On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the > > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists > > of time). > > Not particularly lost. Such a display makes it easy to see moire > patterns if your monitor is subtly out of tuns, and correct them.
Thanks. Suspected that or similar. Probably made more sense when B&W monitors where the mainstay. Three-dot color doesn't tend to generate moires quite the same way, though I've found that flatscreen (and presumably laptop) screens can be distracting to the extreme. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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