                         XSETROOT.EXE

Xsetroot lets you tailor the appearance of the background ("root")
window on a workstation display running X.  Normally, you experiment
with xsetroot until you find a personalized look that you like, then
put the xsetroot command that produces it into your X startup
module.


SYNOPSIS:

 xsetroot
 [-help] [-def] [-display display]
 [-bitmalename]
 [-mod x y] [-gray] [-grey] [-fg color] [-bg color] [-rv]
 [-solid color] [-name string]

The options are as follows:

-help
Displays a usage message.

-def
Resets any unspecified attributes to their default values.

-bitmalename
Use the bitmap specified in the le to set the window pattern.  You
can make your own bitmales (little pictures) using the bitmap
program.  The entire background will be made up of repeated "tiles"
of the bitmap.

-mod x y
This is used if you want a plaid-like grid pattern on your screen. x
and y are integers ranging from 1 to 16.  Try the different
combinations. Zero and negative numbers are taken as 1.

-gray or -grey
Make the entire background gray.  (Easier on the eyes.)

-fg color
Use `color' as the foreground color.  Foreground and background
colors are meaningful only in combination with -cursor, -bitmap, or
-mod.

-bg color
Use `color' as the background color.

-rv
This exchanges the foreground and background colors.  Normally
the foreground color is black and the background color is white.

-solid color
This sets the background of the root window to the specified color.
This option is only useful on color servers.

-name string
Set the name of the root window to `string'.  There is no default
value. Usually a name is assigned to a window so that the window
manager can use a text representation when the window is iconifed.
This option is unused since you can't iconify the background.

-display display
Specifies the server to connect to.

If no options are specified, or if -def is specied, the window is
reset to its default state.  The -def option can be specified along
with other options and only the non-specified characteristics will be
reset to the default state. Only one of the background color/tiling
changing options (-solid, -gray, -grey, -bitmap, and -mod) may be
specified at a time.

 COPYRIGHT
 Copyright 19, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 AUTHOR
 Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena
