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>12.9. LCD Display</H1
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>&#13; This chapter isn't ready yet, it will contain information about
the lifetime of backlights,
differences between CRT and LCD displays,
anti-aliasing with LCD displays,
the <SPAN
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a survey of common resolutions: VGA, SVGA, XGA
and more soon.
See also the screensaver chapter and the touchscreen section in the
chapter
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>12.9.1. Laptop Displays</H2
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>12.9.1.1. Applications</H3
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>&#13; <A
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is a utility to display LCD monitor test patterns. It may
be useful in finding pixels that are stuck on or off. lcdtest uses the SDL
library, and has only been tested on Linux with X, but may work on other
platforms.
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>&#13; <A
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is a program used to control monitor parameters, like
brightness and contrast, by software, i.e. without using the OSD (On
Screen Display) and the buttons in front of the monitor.
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is a 8x16 pixel fixed width font to be used in
physically small but high resolution displays. Such displays can be found
for example in notebook computers with 1400x1050 and 1600x1200 14" displays.
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is a free ISO 8859-15 (i.e. ISO 8859-1 with Euro symbol) encoded
monowidth dot matrix typeface for the X Window system (X11). It is
currently available in nine sizes: 4x8, 5x10, 6x12, 7x14, 8x16, 9x18,
10x20, 11x22 and 12x24 pixels. It's design objectives are:
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>&#13; Readability; fitness to be used as a default screen font,
especially on reverse-color X11 terminals
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>&#13; Optimization for program code through visually distinct
characters L, l, 1, 7, |, I, i and 0, O and more.
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>&#13; Complete ISO 8859-15 character set.
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>&#13; Many point sizes to ensure optical consistency across
different computers with different screen resolutions
(encompassing anything from PDA displays to 20" screens).
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>&#13; Fitness for displaying ASCII art and codework/code poetry,
from viewing graphics in aview, watching TV in ttv and DVDs
in <B
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> to reading mailinglists like
_arc.hive_, 7-11 and writing in <B
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>mutt</B
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>&#13; Clean, minimalist visual design; no serifs, a square
minuscule base matrix, rounded edges. This is a computer
terminal font; it should not look like a low-res imitation
of print type.
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>&#13; The author Florian Cramer employs this font in his "anti-desktop"
setup consisting of the <B
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>ratpoison</B
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inside an <B
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>rxvt</B
> terminal (with reverse color and no scrollbars), similar to
what is described in this
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