XREFRESH(1)

📦
version 7.7+11build1 · 4 versions
, in alpine 3.24, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 XREFRESH(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

Okay bestie, this is the General Commands Manual entry for xrefresh 💖

✨ NAME ✨

xrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen 🌸

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

xrefresh [-option ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so Xrefresh is a simple X program that repaints all or part of your screen 🫶 It's seriously useful when system messages have totally messed up your display 😭 Here's the tea: Xrefresh maps a window over the area you want, then immediately unmaps it, which sends refresh events to every application. By default it uses a window with no background, so all your apps repaint smoothly ✨ But you can use the options below to pick a solid background of any color, or the root window background instead 🌈

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • -white — Uses a white background. The screen just kind of flashes quickly and then repaints ⚡
  • -black — Uses a black background. Fair warning, this one is lowkey disorienting because everything goes black for a moment 🖤
  • -solid color — Uses a solid background of the color you specify. Try green 💚
  • -root — Uses the root window background 🌿
  • -none — This is the default! All of the windows just repaint 💜
  • -geometry WxH+X+Y — Picks the portion of the screen to be repainted. See X(7) for the full deal 📐
  • -display display — Lets you pick the server and screen to refresh. See X(7) 🖥️
  • -version — Prints the program version and exits 🧚

💖 X DEFAULTS 💖

The xrefresh program reads its defaults with the routine XGetDefault(3), so its resource names are all capitalized 🍓

  • Black, White, Solid, None, Root — Decides what sort of window background to use 🎨
  • Geometry — Decides the area to refresh. Not super useful tbh 🙈

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

  • DISPLAY — Used to get the default host and display number 🌟

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

X(7)

💀 BUGS 💀

It should have just one default type for the background. Literally one. We're not okay about this one 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corp., MIT Project Athena 🫶

Okay that's the whole page, bestie 💅 It's from X Version 11, and the program is xrefresh 1.1.0 🌈 Now go refresh that messy screen and slay 🔥✨

📦 where this page comes from