Re: help in same window + colorful help + Blümchen

[Emanuel Berg]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> If you use Do Re Mi, you can incrementally increase
> or decrease the saturation of all face foregrounds
> or backgrounds. That has the effect of increasing or
> decreasing angry-fruit-saladness.

I prefer the more straightforward RGB model which is
what is used in the Linux VTs but also in X (e.g., in
~/.Xresources) but I know of something to the extent
of what you mention and that is xdark by Sam Watkins.
It isn't in the Debian repos but should be possible to
find. Anyway despite its name it works for the ttys as
well as X (as long as invoked via X).

What I do is set the colors in terms of the colors
(mostly), then I adjust the brightness with xdark to
compensate for different projectors and the like.

I have some material on this here, including
a tutorial which isn't that old:

    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/cols/www/index.html

Here is how xdark is used:

    $ xdark -h
    usage: xdark [-i] [[from-brightness] to-brightness]
      without args, it reads the values
      brightness should be between 0.0 (dark) to 1.0 (bright)
      -i invert
    try:
      xdark 0.5
      xdark
      xdark 1 0
      xdark 0.5 0
      xdark 1

These little helpers are life savers, literally.

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