bsetroot(1)

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version 0.77 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 NAME 💅

bsetroot — the blackbox utility that changes how your root window looks, bestie. it's giving glow-up for your desktop background ✨

🦋 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 🌸

okay so Bsetroot is that girl who can control the appearance of your root window in three whole ways, no cap: you can hand it a solid color, or write a two color modula pattern onto it, or render a gradient texture built from two different colors. pick your fighter 💖

she lowkey resembles xsetroot(1) in what she does, but she levels up by supporting multiple screen displays and gradient textures the exact same way Blackbox does. what she does not handle is cursors and stuff like that, so don't come for her about it 🙈

fr fr, Bsetroot is part of the Blackbox package. she belongs. periodt 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

so here's the vibe: Bsetroot operates in three ways, and you must choose one of the first 3 options. no mixing, no matching, one main character only 💅

  • -solid color — sets the root window to the specified color. simple, clean, iconic.
  • -mod x y — creates a modula pattern. you must specify both -bg and -fg colors or it's not happening 🎀
  • -gradient texturestring — renders the specified texturestring to the root window. for the possible texture strings, go peek at blackbox(1) iykyk. 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 the -gradient operation mode.
  • -to color — ending color for rendering textures. needed for the -gradient operation mode.
  • -help — prints version info and a short help text. a lil treat 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bsetroot is written and maintained by Brad Hughes (blackbox@alug.org) and Jeff Raven (jraven@psu.edu). legends, honestly 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

blackbox(1)

and that's the whole thing, bestie! this page is from Blackbox 0.60.3, dated June 16th, 2000 — vintage but still serving 💖✨ mwah, go forth and make your root window cute 🎀🦋

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