The POW Options Menu
This menu allows you to change several things about the way POW looks.
There are nine actions on the POW Options menu:
- Change Background Color will bring up a dialog box with
color sliders. Play with the sliders until you get a color you
like.
- Change Font will change the font used in the main
POW window (the lower left area of POW). Clicking this will
bring up a dialog box where you can type in the name of a color
to use for the backgrounds of POW's windows.
- Default will reset the selection to POW's
default value.
- Apply will change POW's font to whatever is typed
in but not exit the font choice box.
- OK will change POW's font to whatever is typed in
and exit the font choice box.
- Cancel will change POW's font back to what it was
before you launched the font choice box.
See an X users guide or manual for a description of X font
names. The command 'xlsfonts' will give you a (long) list of all
the fonts known to your X server.
- Resize Main Window on Expand: If this box is
checked, POW will get bigger or smaller (as far as possible)
whenever you change the objects in the main POW window,
so as to show you everything currently displayed in the main
POW window without scrolling.
- Show Linked Axes: If checked, pink lines will be
drawn between linked axes. See the
POW Overview for a description
of how linked axes work. This function does nothing in
fv at this time.
- Grid Line Options: You can toggle the grid on or off
and choose dashed and colored grid styles for the currently
selected graph. More options are available from the Edit Graphs dialog box.
- Main Cursor Shape: You can choose from a few standard
X cursors for the form your Mouse cursor will assume in the
main and scope windows.
- Curve Options: From the resulting dialog box one
can control the default display styles (color, point shapes, etc)
for line plots. See Curve Options
for details.
- Decimal/Base 60 Axis Labels: You may choose
decimal degrees or HMS format for the axis labels on your
graphs and for what shows up in the Coordinate tracker.
This only applies to graphs which contain images with WCS
coordinate information.
- Save Current Settings will write a file in your
home directory (~/.powrc) saving your current choices for
the appearance of POW. There are a couple of extra default
parameters that can't be changed in the GUI but which are
saved in this file. You can play with these if you're
feeling brave.
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Last modified: Tue Oct 27 12:20:00 EDT