d.background(1grass)
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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
AUTHOR
Vaclav Petras, NCSU GeoForAll Lab
SOURCE CODE
Available at: d.background source code (history)
Accessed: Monday Jun 01 16:58:37 2026
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