fbsetroot - a simple background utility used by the fluxbox(1) window manager, originally written for and
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Description
fbsetroot(1) 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. fbsetroot resembles xsetroot(1) in this functionality but it supports multiple-screen displays, and gradient textures the same way as blackbox or fluxbox does. It doesn’t handle cursors etc. fbsetroot was originally part of the Blackbox package and was carried over with the code that became Fluxbox. It was called bsetroot back in those days. If any errors are encountered, fbsetroot will use either gxmessage(1) or xmessage(1) to inform the user of errors.
Name
fbsetroot - a simple background utility used by the fluxbox(1) window manager, originally written for and
by the original blackbox(1) window manager.
Options
fbsetroot operates in three ways, you must choose one of the first 3 options:
-solidcolor
Sets the root window to specified color.
-modxy
Creates a modula pattern. You must specify -bg and -fg colors.
-gradienttexturestring
Renders the specified texture string to the root window.
texturestring may be one of:
Horizontal/Vertical/Diagonal/Crossdiagonal/Pipecross/Elliptic/Rectangle/Pyramid
Select one of these texture types, they only apply when -gradient is specified. You must also
specify both a -from and a -to color.
-displaydisplay
Tells fbsetroot to connect to the specified display.
-bg,-backgroundcolor
Background color. Needed for -mod patterns.
-fg,-foregroundcolor
Foreground color. Needed for -mod patterns.
-fromcolor
Start color for rendering textures. Needed for -gradient patterns.
-tocolor
Ending color for rendering textures. Needed for -gradient patterns.
-help
Prints version info and short help text.
See Also
fluxbox(1) fbsetbg(1) xsetroot(1) xmessage(1) gxmessage(1)
Synopsis
fbsetroot [-display display] -solid colorfbsetroot [-display display] -mod xy -fg color -bg colorfbsetroot [-display display] -gradient texture -from color -to colorfbsetroot -help
