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

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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

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 dataset 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"

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: Wednesday Apr 17 11:38:48 2024 in commit: af7aa6982f1bc0f006e95221291b5ca125abd1e6

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