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  NAME
       xrefresh - refresh all or part of an X screen


  SYNOPSIS
       xrefresh [-option ...]

  DESCRIPTION
       Xrefresh is a simple X program that causes all or part of
       your screen to be repainted.  This is useful when system
       messages have messed up your screen.  Xrefresh maps a window
       on top of the desired area of the screen and then
       immediately unmaps it, causing refresh events to be sent to
       all applications.  By default, a window with no background
       is used, causing all applications to repaint ``smoothly.''
       However, the various options can be used to indicate that a
       solid background (of any color) or the root window
       background should be used instead.

  ARGUMENTS
       -white    Use a white background.  The screen just appears
                 to flash quickly, and then repaint.

       -black    Use a black background (in effect, turning off all
                 of the electron guns to the tube).  This can be
                 somewhat disorienting as everything goes black for
                 a moment.

       -solid color
                 Use a solid background of the specified color.
                 Try green.

       -root     Use the root window background.

       -none     This is the default.  All of the windows simply
                 repaint.

       -geometry WxH+X+Y
                 Specifies the portion of the screen to be
                 repainted; see X(1).


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       -display display
                 This  argument  allows  you  to  specify the
                 server and screen to refresh; see X(1).

  X DEFAULTS
       The xrefresh program uses the routine XGetDefault(3X) to
       read defaults, so its resource names are all capitalized.

       Black, White, Solid, None, Root
               Determines what sort of window background to use.

       Geometry
               Determines the area to refresh.  Not very useful.

  ENVIRONMENT
       DISPLAY - To get default host and display number.

  SEE ALSO
       X(1)

  BUGS
       It should have just one default type for the background.

  COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
       See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

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













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