2 .TH xrepaint 1 "10 January 2016" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
4 xrepaint \- force repainting of X display, or just one screen
13 program forces a repaint of the entire X display,
14 or maybe just a single screen.
16 Options are as follows.
19 Repaint all of the screens on the display.
22 .BI "\-d, \-\-display=" display
23 Sets the X display to connect to.
24 The default comes from the
30 Repaint only the default screen selected by
32 The default is to repaint all of the screens.
34 If a compositing manager is present,
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.
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.
45 The current behaviour seems to be good enough for the author's purposes.
47 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>