man xrefresh () - refresh all or part of an X screen
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
- -white
- Use a white background. The screen just appears to flash quickly, and then repaint.
- -black
- 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.
- -solid color
- Use a solid background of the specified color. Try green.
- -root
- Use the root window background.
- -none
- This is the default. All of the windows simply repaint.
X DEFAULTS
The xrefresh program uses the routine XGetDefault(3) to read defaults, so its resource names are all capitalized.
- Black, White, Solid, None, Root
- Determines what sort of window background to use.
- Geometry
- Determines the area to refresh. Not very useful.
ENVIRONMENT
- DISPLAY - To get default host and display number.
SEE ALSO
BUGS
It should have just one default type for the background.
AUTHORS
Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena