NAME(SECTION)

💖 NAME — bb (The aalib demo) 💖

okay so bestie, gather round: this is the manual page for bb, aka the aalib demo. The header line is just NAME(SECTION), so we're folding that in right here and moving on with main character energy. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bb [options]

No cap, that's the whole synopsis. 🫶

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

The bb command shows a high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text terminal. It's literally giving terminal demo excellence. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Here's the option tea: a summary of options are included below. For a complete description, type bb -help. ✨

• -help — show summary of options.
• -loop — play demo in infinite loop. Endless vibe, no notes. 🔁
• -driver — select driver; available drivers: linux slang X11 stdout stderr.
• -kbddriver — select keyboard driver; available drivers: slang X11 stdin.
• -mousedriver — select mouse driver; available drivers: X11 gpm dos.
• -width — set width.
• -height — set height.
• -minwidth — set minimal width.
• -minheight — set minimal height.
• -maxwidth — set maximal width.
• -maxheight — set maximal height.
• -recwidth — set recomended width. (Yes, “recomended” — we keep the source spelling, it's camp.)
• -recheight — set recomended height.
• -dim — enable usage of dim (half bright) attribute.
• -bold — enable usage of bold (double bright) attribute.
• -reverse — enable usage of reverse attribute.
• -normal — enable usage of normal attribute.
• -boldfont — enable usage of boldfont attrubute. (Yep, attrubute — source spelling preserved, bestie.)
• -no<attr> — disable an attribute, i.e. -nobold.
• -extended — use all 256 characters. Iconic range. 👑
• -eight — use eight bit ascii.
• -font <font> — select font. This option have effect just on hardwares where aalib is unable to determine current font. Available fonts: vga8 vga9 mda14 vga14 X8x13 X8x16 X8x13bold vgagl8 line. 🧚
• -inverse — enable inverse rendering.
• -noinverse — disable inverse rendering.
• -bright <val> — set bright (0-255).
• -contrast <val> — set contrast (0-255).
• -gamma <val> — set gamma correction value (0-1).
• -nodither — disable dithering.
• -floyd_steinberg — floyd steinberg dithering.
• -error_distribution — error distribution dithering.
• -random <val> — set random dithering value (0-inf).
• -dimmul <val> — multiply factor for dim color (5.3).
• -boldmul <val> — multiply factor for dim color (2.7). (Yes, it says dim color here too — we are not editing the sacred text. 💀)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

See the files in /usr/doc/aalib*. That glob is doing the most, and we love that for it. 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Iconic Debian behavior. 🫶

That's the whole page, bestie 💖 The footer just says NAME(SECTION) again and gives us no source/version/date line, so this is your cute sign-off from the bb aalib demo manual — slay responsibly. 🎀✨