XWININFO(1)                          SysV                          XWININFO(1)



NAME
     xwininfo - window information utility for X

SYNOPSIS
     xwininfo [-help] [-id id] [-root] [-name name] [-int] [-tree] [-stats]
     [-bits] [-events] [-size] [-wm ] [-all] [-english] [-metric] [-display
     display]

DESCRIPTION
     Xwininfo is a utility for displaying information about windows.  Various
     information is displayed depending on which options are selected.  If no
     options are chosen, -stats is assumed.

     The user has the option of selecting the target window with the mouse (by
     clicking any mouse button in the desired window) 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 X's root window.

OPTIONS
     -help   Print out the `Usage:' command syntax summary.

     -id id  This option allows the user to specify a target window 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.

     -name name
             This option allows the user to specify that the window named name
             is the target window on the command line rather than using the
             mouse to select the target window.

     -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.

     -int    This option specifies that all X window ids should be displayed
             as integer values.  The default is to display them as hexadecimal
             values.

     -tree   This option causes the root, parent, and children windows' ids
             and names of the selected window to be displayed.

     -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.

     -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 gravity, window gravity, backing-store hint,
             backing-planes value, backing pixel, and whether or not the
             window has save-under set.

     -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.

     -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 supplied 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.

     -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.

     -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 thinks the resolution is.
             Geometry specifications that are in +x+y form are not changed.

     -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.

     -all    This option is a quick way to ask for all information possible.

     -display display
             This option allows you to specify the server to connect to; see
             X(1).

EXAMPLE
     The following is a sample summary taken with no options specified:

     xwininfo ==> Please select the window about which you
              ==> would like information by clicking the
              ==> mouse in that window.

     xwininfo ==> Window id: 0x60000f (xterm)

              ==> Upper left X: 4
              ==> Upper left Y: 19
              ==> Width: 726
              ==> Height: 966
              ==> Depth: 4
              ==> Border width: 3
              ==> Window class: InputOutput
              ==> Colormap: 0x80065
              ==> Window Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
              ==> Window Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
              ==> Window Backing Store State: NotUseful
              ==> Window Save Under State: no
              ==> Window Map State: IsViewable
              ==> Window Override Redirect State: no
              ==> Corners:  +4+19  -640+19  -640-33  +4-33


ENVIRONMENT
     DISPLAY To get the default host and display number.

SEE ALSO
     X(1), xprop(1)

BUGS
     Using -stats -bits shows some redundant information.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHOR
     Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena