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2006-03-10
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Disambiguation: X (Service)

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Stuff ∞

Configuration ∞

Related topics:

  • /etc/X11/xorg.conf — The main X configuration file.

Older stuff:

Included software ∞

See /tag/x-software

Utilities, windows ∞

Xdpyinfo usage ∞

From https://web.archive.org/web/20070316093957/http://bur.st/~benc/external-edit

(xwininfo)

# this gets the window id of the window with focus
winid=`xdpyinfo | sed -ne 's/^focus:.*\(0x[^,]\+\).*/\1/p'`
# and this gets window title
wintitle=`xwininfo -id $winid | sed -ne 's/xwininfo: .*"\([^"]\+\)"/\1/p'`

Utilities, video ∞

Utilities, other ∞

  • xev

  • xfontsel

  • xmore

  • xset

  • xsm

    • xsm
    • http://www.xfree86.org/current/xsm.1.html
    • A session manager.
    • A session is a group of applications, each of which has a particular state. xsm allows you to create arbitrary sessions – for example, you might have a “light” session, a “development” session, or an “xterminal” session. Each session can have its own set of applications. Within a session, you can perform a “checkpoint” to save application state, or a “shutdown” to save state and exit the session. When you log back in to the system, you can load a specific session, and you can delete sessions you no longer want to keep.
    • Some session managers simply allow you to manually specify a list of applications to be started in a session. xsm is more powerful because it lets you run applications and have them automatically become part of the session. On a simple level, xsm is useful because it gives you this ability to easily define which applications are in a session. The true power of xsm, however, can be taken advantage of when more and more applications learn to save and restore their state.

Working with the “desktop” (root window) ∞

Alternatives to xsetroot

See also Application launchers for desktop icon-related tools.

Other tools / software ∞

See /tag/software+x

misc ∞

  • xtoolwait

    • Helps speed up x startup.

  • xrunclient

  • http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/programs.html > Xtoolplaces

    • The X equivalent of the old toolplaces program for Sunview. Xtoolplaces will save the current state of your X desktop. Unlike other such programs, it has the capability to automatically and manually save ill-behaved windows (such as xterm and Emacs).

  • xdotool

    • Lets you programatically (or manually) simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension and other Xlib functions.

X clipboard ∞

See also:

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fonts ∞

session managers ∞

tray ∞

  • alltray can put anything in the tray.

    • Tested 2009-04-11 – 0.69
    • Turns any application into a tray application.

  • KDE has kstart

    • Tested 2009-04-11 – (Qt: 3.3.8, KDE: 3.5.9, KStart: kstart version 1.92)
    • Can supposedly start applications iconified. I couldn’t get it to work with Audacious.

window-level control ∞

See also Window managers

TODO – I want something that can minimize..

Stuff ∞

Footnotes


  1. not found on www.xfree86.org! [ ↩ ]
4 comments

4 comments on “X”

  1. – Porting/building a list of included software. I always forget about these programs..
    – Created the X logo myself, because it’s Linux.

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