Appearance Tips

Here's some tips on how to make your wearable easier to use, especially in low-color (such as the 64-color MicroOptical SV-3) environments.

The neep font is quite legible. Apt-get install xfonts-jmk and then start your xterms with -fn "-jmk-neep-bold-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15". At 640x480, you can specify 30 lines and it (at least on WindowMaker) will take up the whole screen. On the MicroOptical SV-3, it may be necessary to specify 79 columns rather than 80, since it seems to cut off the rightmost few pixels. Here's a screenshot.

To make life easier, you can run a VNC server on your wearable (say on display :9) and then connect your wearable's X session to that. This allows you to have remote control on a desktop if you want it. It takes a little fiddling, though, when using the SV-3 to get the colors to look right. Run the VNC server with "-pixelformat rgb222 -depth 8"; on the SV-3, this will produce acceptable dithering: original, dithered and a close match in colors between the SV-3's VNC and a TrueColor desktop's VNC. Running the VNC server with "-pixelformat rgb222 -depth 16" will produce a non-dithered color block appearance: original, dithered. Also compare this original image with dithering at 8 bits and dithering at 16 bits.
Here is a WindowMaker theme that looks decent on the MicroOptical SV-3. And everyone loves screenshots! To install, untar the file in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes . The theme should be immediately available on your Themes menu. More fun WindowMaker Theme info is available here.