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- NAME
- xwininfo - window information utility for X
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- SYNOPSIS
- xwininfo [-help] [-id id] [-root] [-name name] [-int]
- [-children] [-tree] [-stats] [-bits] [-events] [-size] [-wm]
- [-shape] [-frame] [-all] [-english] [-metric] [-display
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- DESCRIPTION
- Xwininfo is a utility for displaying information about win-
- dows. Various information is displayed depending on which
- options are selected. If no options are chosen, -stats is
- assumed.
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- The user has the option of selecting the target window with
- the mouse (by clicking any mouse button in the desired win-
- dow) or by specifying its window id on the command line with
- the -id option. Or instead of specifying the window by its
- id number, the -name option may be used to specify which
- window is desired by name. There is also a special -root
- option to quickly obtain information on the screen's root
- window.
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- OPTIONS
- -help Print out the `Usage:' command syntax summary.
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- -id id This option allows the user to specify a target win-
- dow id on the command line rather than using the
- mouse to select the target window. This is very
- useful in debugging X applications where the target
- window is not mapped to the screen or where the use
- of the mouse might be impossible or interfere with
- the application.
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- -name name
- This option allows the user to specify that the win-
- dow named name is the target window on the command
- line rather than using the mouse to select the tar-
- get window.
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- -root This option specifies that X's root window is the
- target window. This is useful in situations where
- the root window is completely obscured.
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- -int This option specifies that all X window ids should
- be displayed as integer values. The default is to
- display them as hexadecimal values.
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- -children
- This option causes the root, parent, and children
- windows' ids and names of the selected window to be
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- -tree This option is like -children but displays all chil-
- dren recursively.
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- -stats This option causes the display of various attributes
- pertaining to the location and appearance of the
- selected window. Information displayed includes the
- location of the window, its width and height, its
- depth, border width, class, colormap id if any, map
- state, backing-store hint, and location of the
- corners.
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- -bits This option causes the display of various attributes
- pertaining to the selected window's raw bits and how
- the selected window is to be stored. Displayed
- information includes the selected window's bit grav-
- ity, window gravity, backing-store hint, backing-
- planes value, backing pixel, and whether or not the
- window has save-under set.
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- -events This option causes the selected window's event masks
- to be displayed. Both the event mask of events
- wanted by some client and the event mask of events
- not to propagate are displayed.
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- -size This option causes the selected window's sizing
- hints to be displayed. Displayed information
- includes: for both the normal size hints and the
- zoom size hints, the user supplied location if any;
- the program supplied location if any; the user sup-
- plied size if any; the program supplied size if any;
- the minimum size if any; the maximum size if any;
- the resize increments if any; and the minimum and
- maximum aspect ratios if any.
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- -wm This option causes the selected window's window
- manager hints to be displayed. Information
- displayed may include whether or not the application
- accepts input, what the window's icon window # and
- name is, where the window's icon should go, and what
- the window's initial state should be.
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- -shape This option causes the selected window's window and
- border shape extents to be displayed.
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- -frame This option causes window manager frames to be con-
- sidered when manually selecting windows.
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- -metric This option causes all individual height, width, and
- x and y positions to be displayed in millimeters as
- well as number of pixels, based on what the server
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- thinks the resolution is. Geometry specifications
- that are in +x+y form are not changed.
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- -english
- This option causes all individual height, width, and
- x and y positions to be displayed in inches (and
- feet, yards, and miles if necessary) as well as
- number of pixels. -metric and -english may both be
- enabled at the same time.
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- -all This option is a quick way to ask for all informa-
- tion possible.
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- -display display
- This option allows you to specify the server to con-
- nect to; see X(1).
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- EXAMPLE
- The following is a sample summary taken with no options
- specified:
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- xwininfo: Window id: 0x60000f "xterm"
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- Absolute upper-left X: 2
- Absolute upper-left Y: 85
- Relative upper-left X: 0
- Relative upper-left Y: 25
- Width: 579
- Height: 316
- Depth: 8
- Visual Class: PseudoColor
- Border width: 0
- Class: InputOutput
- Colormap: 0x27 (installed)
- Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
- Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
- Backing Store State: NotUseful
- Save Under State: no
- Map State: IsViewable
- Override Redirect State: no
- Corners: +2+85 -699+85 -699-623 +2-623
- -geometry 80x24+0+58
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- ENVIRONMENT
- DISPLAY To get the default host and display number.
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- SEE ALSO
- X(1), xprop(1)
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- BUGS
- Using -stats -bits shows some redundant information.
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- The -geometry string displayed must make assumptions about
- the window's border width and the behavior of the applica-
- tion and the window manager. As a result, the location
- given is not always correct.
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- AUTHOR
- Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena
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