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)