Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2022-05-16 from the all night long dept.

Crystal Kolipe writes in about her work on the framebuffer console, and provides an article on

… how to add a 'night mode' to the OpenBSD framebuffer console to give the text a yellow tint for more comfortable night time viewing, along with quite a few other cosmetic tweaks such as adding support for strikethrough text and double underlining. The article explains how to dynamically adjust the colour pallette, add a new sysctl value, and add a new escape sequence to the console emulation code in the kernel.

The patchset is currently available for OpenBSD 7.0 and 7.1:
"Candlelit console"
https://www.exoticsilicon.com/research/candlelit_console
gemini://gemini.exoticsilicon.com/research/candlelit_console
Have fun!

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By Peter J. Philipp (pjp) nospam@delphinusdns.org on 2022-05-16 10:48

*thumbs up*

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