bsetroot1
Blackbox utility to change root window appearance
Usage
bsetroot -help
bsetroot [-display
display]
-solid
color
bsetroot [-display
display]
-mod
x
y
-fg
color
-bg
color
bsetroot [-display
display]
-gradient
texture
-from
color
-to
color
Overview
Bsetroot is a utility that can control the appearance of the root window in three ways: Either give it a solid color, or write a two color modula pattern to it, or render a gradient texture, based on two different colors.
Bsetroot resembles xsetroot(1) in this functionality but it supports multiple screen displays, and gradient textures the same way as Blackbox does. It doesn't handle cursors etc. Bsetroot is part of the Blackbox package.
Options
Bsetroot operates in three ways, you must choose one of the first 3 options:
-solidcolor-
Sets the root window to specified color.
-modx y-
Creates a modula pattern. You must specify
-bgand-fgcolors.
-gradienttexturestring-
Renders the specified texture string to the root window. For possible texture strings, please refer to blackbox(1). You must also specify both a
-fromand a-tocolor.
-displaydisplay-
Tells Bsetroot to connect to the specified display.
-
-bg, -background color -
Background color. Needed for
-modpatterns.
-
-fg, -foreground color -
Foreground color. Needed for
-modpatterns.
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Start color for rendering textures. Needed for |
|---|---|
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Ending color for rendering textures. Needed for |
-
-help -
Prints version info and short help text.
Releases
14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 3 times.
-background since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-bg since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-fg since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-foreground since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-help since Debian 3.0 (Woody).