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bsetroot(1)            DragonFly General Commands Manual           bsetroot(1)

NAME
       bsetroot - blackbox utility to change root window appearance

SYNOPSIS
       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

DESCRIPTION
       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:

       -solid color
              Sets the root window to specified color.

       -mod x y
              Creates a modula pattern. You must specify -bg and -fg colors.

       -gradient texturestring
              Renders the specified texture string to the root window.  For
              possible texture strings, please refer to blackbox(1).  You must
              also specify both a -from and a -to color.

       -display display
              Tells Bsetroot to connect to the specified display.

       -bg, -background color
              Background color.  Needed for -mod patterns.

       -fg, -foreground color
              Foreground color.  Needed for -mod patterns.

       -from color
              Start color for rendering textures.  Needed for -gradient
              operation mode.

       -to color
              Ending color for rendering textures.  Needed for -gradient
              operation mode.

       -help  Prints version info and short help text.

AUTHOR
       Bsetroot was written and maintained by Brad Hughes (blackbox@alug.org)
       and Jeff Raven (jraven@psu.edu).

SEE ALSO
       blackbox(1)

0.60.3                          June 16th, 2000                    bsetroot(1)