xrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen
xrefresh [-option ...]
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
-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 disorient-
ing 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | x11/x11-server-utilities |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
X(7)
BUGS
It should have just one default type for the background.
AUTHORS
Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from ['https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xhost-1.0.8.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xrefresh-1.0.6.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xinput-1.6.3.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/rgb-1.0.6.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xset-1.2.4.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xsetroot-1.1.2.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xrdb-1.2.1.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xrandr-1.5.1.tar.gz', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xmodmap-1.0.10.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xprop-1.2.5.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xgamma-1.0.6.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/app/xcmsdb-1.0.5.tar.bz2'].
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.x.org.
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