NAME

       bsetroot - blackbox utility to change root window appearance

SYNOPSIS

       bsetroot -help
       bsetroot [ -display display ] -solid color
       bsetroot [ -display display ] -mod x y -fg color -bg color
       bsetroot [ -display display ] -gradient texture -from color -to color

DESCRIPTION

       Bsetroot  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.

       Bsetroot  resembles  xsetroot(1)  in  this  functionality  but  it supports multiple screen displays, and
       gradient textures the same way as Blackbox does.  It doesn't handle cursors etc.  Bsetroot is part of the
       Blackbox package.

OPTIONS

       Bsetroot operates in three ways, you must choose one of the first 3 options:

       -solid color
              Sets the root window to specified color.

       -mod x y
              Creates a modula pattern. You must specify -bg and -fg colors.

       -gradient texturestring
              Renders  the  specified  texture  string to the root window.  For possible texture strings, please
              refer to blackbox(1).  You must also specify both a -from and a -to color.

       -display display
              Tells Bsetroot to connect to the specified display.

       -bg, -background color
              Background color.  Needed for -mod patterns.

       -fg, -foreground color
              Foreground color.  Needed for -mod patterns.

       -from color
              Start color for rendering textures.  Needed for -gradient operation mode.

       -to color
              Ending color for rendering textures.  Needed for -gradient operation mode.

       -help  Prints version info and short help text.

AUTHOR

       Bsetroot was written and maintained by Brad Hughes (blackbox@alug.org) and Jeff Raven (jraven@psu.edu).

SEE ALSO

       blackbox(1)