ASCOLOR(1x)

✨ ASCOLOR 💅

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ascolor, a User Commands situation from the 1x manual — it's the little tool that makes color schemes for AfterStep, and honestly? it's giving main character energy 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

ascolor — create color schemes for AfterStep. no cap, that's the whole job. 🦋

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

ascolor [-b|--base-color color] [-a|--angle angle] [-f|--file file]
[-s|--string xmlstring] [-i|--save-image file] [-t|--type type]
[-c|--compress level] [-o|--output file] [-n|--no-display]
[-r|--root-window] [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-V|--verbose]
[-D|--debug]

like... look at her. so many options. so much power. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ascolor is a simple GUI to create color schemes for AfterStep, fr fr. and where does it put the result? it writes it into a file named color scheme in the current directory, or in the directory you hand it with the -o option (peep below 👇).

so there are 4 parameters to the color scheme: Angle, Hue, Saturation and Value. the way that you just press the arrow keys in the ascolor window and it changes whichever parameter is currently selected?? iconic. and to select a parameter you press the 'a', 'h', 's' or 'v' keys. easy. obsessed. ✨

ascolor will also create a .mini file suitable to be used as a minipixmap in the AfterStep menu. two files, one vibe. 💅

so here's the whole ritual bestie: rename and copy both the colorscheme and .mini files into the ~/.afterstep/colorschemes directory, then refresh the AfterStep menu. new entry should show up. select it and boom 💥 your new color scheme is applied. slay.

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -b --base_color color — base color to use 🎨
• -a --angle angle — initial angle 📐
• -f --file file — an XML file to use as input 📄
• -s --string xmlstring — an XML string to use as input ✍️
• -i --save-image file — save image to given file 💾
• -t --type type — type of image to save 🖼️
• -c --compress level — compression level of image 🗜️
• -o --output file — output to file 📤
• -n --no-display — do not display the GUI 🙈
• -r --root-window — draw result image on root window 🌌
• -z --default-scheme — use color and angle from default scheme 🌈
• -h --help — display this help and exit 🆘
• -v --version — display version and exit 🏷️
• -V --verbose — increase verbosity 🗣️
• -D --debug — show debug messages 🐛

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

afterstep(1x).

(go read it, bestie, it's the whole ecosystem 😌)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, using the help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout Robert, absolute legend 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 this was AfterStep version 2.2.12, dated March 2015 — yes she's a vintage queen and she still ate 💅✨ bye luv u, go make some color schemes 🎀🦋💖