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NAME

d.background - Fills the graphics display frame with user defined color.

KEYWORDS

display, graphics, background, fill, erase

SYNOPSIS

d.background
d.background --help
d.background color=name [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

--help
Print usage summary
--verbose
Verbose module output
--quiet
Quiet module output
--ui
Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

color=name [required]
Background color
Either a standard color name or R:G:B triplet

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DESCRIPTION

d.background will fill the image (or generally display monitor) with a single color specified by the color option.

NOTES

d.background is a frontend to d.erase and shares its limitations. Namely, it does not work with the wx monitors such as d.mon wx0.

EXAMPLES

In this example, the streets_wake map from the North Carolina sample location is displayed with custom background color (specified using HTML hex color code) using cairo display monitor (creates file called map.png):
g.region vector=streets_wake
d.mon cairo
d.background color=#ADEFD1
d.vect map=streets_wake color=#00203F legend_label="Streets"
d.legend.vect -b at=70,30 title="Wake County"
Street network with legend and background color

Figure: Wake County street network with custom background color (North Carolina sample dataset)

SEE ALSO

d.erase

AUTHOR

Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab

SOURCE CODE

Available at: d.background source code (history)

Latest change: Tuesday Apr 19 14:30:11 2022 in commit: 8ab593f29df90919d55421f33a44846d20015525


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