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Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen



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.

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