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   2 .TH xrepaint 1 "10 January 2016" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
   3 .SH NAME
   4 xrepaint \- force repainting of X display, or just one screen
   5 .SH SYNOPSIS
   6 .B xrepaint
   7 .RB [ \-as ]
   8 .RB [ \-d
   9 .IR display ]
  10 .SH DESCRIPTION
  11 The
  12 .B xrepaint
  13 program forces a repaint of the entire X display,
  14 or maybe just a single screen.
  15 .PP
  16 Options are as follows.
  17 .TP
  18 .B "\-a, \-\-all"
  19 Repaint all of the screens on the display.
  20 This is the default.
  21 .TP
  22 .BI "\-d, \-\-display=" display
  23 Sets the X display to connect to.
  24 The default comes from the
  25 .B DISPLAY
  26 environment variable,
  27 as usual.
  28 .TP
  29 .B "\-s, \-\-screen"
  30 Repaint only the default screen selected by
  31 .IR display .
  32 The default is to repaint all of the screens.
  33 .SH BUGS
  34 If a compositing manager is present,
  35 then
  36 .B xrepaint
  37 forces recompositing of the screen,
  38 but if some client has painted rubbish into its window,
  39 it won't be forced to repaint it.
  40 .PP
  41 The current approach is fundamentally incorrect.
  42 It doesn't seem possible to know when I've actually succeeded
  43 in forcing a repaint of the display.
  44 .PP
  45 The current behaviour seems to be good enough for the author's purposes.
  46 .SH AUTHOR
  47 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>