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XREFRESH

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ARGUMENTS
X DEFAULTS
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHORS

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. 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(7) .

-display display

This argument allows you to specify the server and screen to refresh; see X(7) .

-version

This argument prints the program version and exits.

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.

BUGS

It should have just one default type for the background.

AUTHORS

Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena