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.TH xrepaint 1 "10 January 2016" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
.SH NAME
xrepaint \- force repainting of X display, or just one screen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xrepaint
.RB [ \-as ]
.RB [ \-d
.IR display ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xrepaint
program forces a repaint of the entire X display,
or maybe just a single screen.
.PP
Options are as follows.
.TP
.B "\-a, \-\-all"
Repaint all of the screens on the display.
This is the default.
.TP
.BI "\-d, \-\-display=" display
Sets the X display to connect to.
The default comes from the
.B DISPLAY
environment variable,
as usual.
.TP
.B "\-s, \-\-screen"
Repaint only the default screen selected by
.IR display .
The default is to repaint all of the screens.
.SH BUGS
If a compositing manager is present,
then
.B xrepaint
forces recompositing of the screen,
but if some client has painted rubbish into its window,
it won't be forced to repaint it.
.PP
The current approach is fundamentally incorrect.
It doesn't seem possible to know when I've actually succeeded
in forcing a repaint of the display.
.PP
The current behaviour seems to be good enough for the author's purposes.
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>