XREFRESH(1) |
General Commands Manual |
XREFRESH(1) |
NAME
xrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen
SYNOPSIS
xrefresh [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Xrefresh is a simple X program that causes all or part of your screen to be repainted. This is useful when system messages have messed up your screen. Xrefresh maps a window on top of the desired area of the screen and then immediately unmaps it, causing refresh events to be sent to all applications. By default, a window with no background is used, causing all applications to repaint ``smoothly.'' However, the various options can be used to indicate that a solid background (of any color) or the root window background should be used instead.
ARGUMENTS
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-white
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Use a white background. The screen just appears to flash quickly, and then repaint.
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-black
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Use a black background (in effect, turning off all of the electron guns to the tube). This can be somewhat disorienting as everything goes black for a moment.
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-solid color
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Use a solid background of the specified color. Try green.
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-root
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Use the root window background.
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-none
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This is the default. All of the windows simply repaint.
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-geometry WxH+X+Y
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Specifies the portion of the screen to be repainted; see X(7).
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-display display
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This argument allows you to specify the server and screen to refresh; see X(7).
X DEFAULTS
The
xrefresh program uses the routine
XGetDefault(3) to read defaults, so its resource names are all capitalized.
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Black, White, Solid, None, Root
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Determines what sort of window background to use.
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Geometry
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Determines the area to refresh. Not very useful.
ENVIRONMENT
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DISPLAY - To get default host and display number.
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SEE ALSO
X(7)
BUGS
It should have just one default type for the background.
AUTHORS
Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena