bb - an ASCII-art demo

bb [options]

bb is a high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text terminal.

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.

-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 minimum width.

-minheight

Set minimum height.

-maxwidth

Set maximum width.

-maxheight

Set maximum height.

-recwidth

Set recommended width.

-recheight

Set recommended 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 attribute.

-no<attr>

Disable attribute (i.e -nobold).

-extended

Use all 256 characters.

-eight

Use eight bit ASCII.

-font <font>

Select font. This option is used on hardware where aalib is unable to determine the current font. Available fonts: vga8, vga9, mda14, vga14, X8x13, X8x16, X8x13bold, vgagl8, line.

-inverse

Enable inverse rendering.

-noinverse

Disable inverse rendering.

-bright <val>

Set brightness (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 attribute (5.3).

-boldmul <val>

Multiply factor for bold attribute (2.7).

Please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>.

bb is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

aafire(1), aainfo(1), aasavefont(1), aatest(1), aview(1), asciiview(1), aaflip(1), aa3d(1), xaos(6), aatv(1).

Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>

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