g.cairocomp(1grass)

💅 g.cairocomp 💅

okay bestie, so this is g.cairocomp from the GRASS User's Manual — the lil tool that overlays multiple X Pixmaps. yes. it composites pixmaps. it's giving very niche, very backend, very iykyk 🎀

keywords: general, display

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

g.cairocomp
g.cairocomp --help
g.cairocomp [-d] input=name[,name,...] output=name  [visual=integer]
[screen=integer]   [opacity=float[,float,...]]  width=integer
height=integer  [bgcolor=name]   [--overwrite]  [--help]  [--verbose]
[--quiet]  [--ui]

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🦋 Flags 🦋

• -d — no compositing, bestie, we're just deleting the input Pixmaps. that's it. that's the whole job. 💀
• --overwrite — lets the output file overwrite stuff that already exists. permission to be a lil destructive, periodt.
• --help — prints the usage summary. your knight in shining armor fr fr 🫶
• --verbose — verbose module output, aka it will Not stop talking.
• --quiet — quiet module output. the introvert mode ✨
• --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch. main character energy, it needs a window 💅

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🎀 Parameters 🎀

• input=name[,name,...] — required, no cap. the name(s) of the input file(s) you wanna throw in there.
• output=name — required. the name for the output file you're cooking up.
• visual=integer — the Output Visual XID. yes it's a lil cryptic, she's just built like that.
• screen=integer — the Output screen.
• opacity=float[,float,...] — layer opacities ✨ translucent girlies rise up.
• width=integer — required. image width, you literally cannot skip this one bestie.
• height=integer — required. image height. same deal, non-negotiable 💅
• bgcolor=name — the background color, written as (R:G:B:A). you can drop a standard color name or an R:G:B triplet. dealer's choice 🌈

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: g.cairocomp isn't meant for end users. like, at all. it said "not for you" and meant it 🙈

g.cairocomp is similar to g.pnmcomp, except — and this is the whole plot twist — it works with X Pixmaps instead of PNM files. that's the difference. that's the vibe. ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

g.pnmcomp

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Glynn Clements

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⭐ SOURCE CODE ⭐

available at: g.cairocomp source code (history)

latest change: Thursday May 08 14:35:40 2025 in commit: 9528b1e38ba37992c1597a979dc3efbb07b74ec5

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