Re: Hard to read leftmost chars in gnome-terminal

[Richard Hult <rhult hem2 passagen se>]

> Richard et al,
> 
> Let me try to shed light on the situation.  The zvt widget appears to
> have a 1-pixel border on its interior.  In addition, gnome-terminal
> seems to have a 1-pixel black border surrounding the zvt widget.  So, if
> your terminal's background color is black, it *looks* like there is a
> 2-pixel border around your text, which is pretty easy to read.  However,
> if you change your background color to white, for instance, you only get
> a 1-pixel border which is much harder to read.
> 
> The solution seems to be, as Richard says, to add more padding to the
> zvt widget.
> 
> See my attached screenshot (hope nobody minds, it is really small).

I just used xmag to look at my gnome-terminal, and I didn't even get 1
pixel of border... with white background.

Richard