d.background(1grass) GRASS GIS User's Manual d.background(1grass)

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

display, graphics, background, fill, erase

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


Print usage summary

Verbose module output

Quiet module output

Force launching GUI dialog


Background color
Either a standard color name or R:G:B triplet

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

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.

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"

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

d.erase

Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab

Available at: d.background source code (history)

Accessed: Monday Apr 01 03:09:27 2024

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