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NAME
xwininfo - window information utility for X
SYNOPSIS
xwininfo [-help] [-id id] [-root] [-name name] [-int] [-children] [-tree]
[-stats] [-bits] [-events] [-size] [-wm] [-shape] [-frame] [-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 the screen'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.
-children
This option causes the root, parent, and children windows' ids
and names of the selected window to be displayed.
-tree This option is like -children but displays all children
recursively.
-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
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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.
-shape This option causes the selected window's window and border shape
extents to be displayed.
-frame This option causes window manager frames to be considered when
manually selecting windows.
-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).
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EXAMPLE
The following is a sample summary taken with no options specified:
xwininfo: Window id: 0x60000f "xterm"
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
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY To get the default host and display number.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xprop(1)
BUGS
Using -stats -bits shows some redundant information.
The -geometry string displayed must make assumptions about the window's
border width and the behavior of the application and the window manager.
As a result, the location given is not always correct.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHOR
Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena
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