Man1 - xrefresh.1

xrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen

xrefresh [-option …]

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.

-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(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.

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.

DISPLAY - To get default host and display number.

X(7)

It should have just one default type for the background.

Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena