XREFRESH(1)XREFRESH(1)NAMExrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen
SYNOPSISxrefresh [-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 win-
dow 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 back-
ground 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.
-geometry WxH+X+Y
Specifies the portion of the screen to be
repainted; see X(1).
-display display
This argument allows you to specify the
server and screen to refresh; see X(1).
X DEFAULTS
The xrefresh program uses the routine XGetDefault(3X) to
read defaults, so its resource names are all capitalized.
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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 ALSOX(1)BUGS
It should have just one default type for the background.
AUTHORS
Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena
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