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XWININFO(1)					   XWININFO(1)

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] [-dis-
       play 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 com-
       mand 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 inter-
	       fere with the application.

       -name name
	       This option allows the user to  specify	that  the
	       window named name is the target window on the com-
	       mand 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.

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       -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 appear-
	       ance of the  selected  window.	Information  dis-
	       played  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 win-
	       dow'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  dis-
	       played  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

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	       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 millime-
	       ters 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 informa-
	       tion 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: 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  -699-6.4  +2-623
	 -geometry 80x24+0+58

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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 applica-
       tion and the window manager.  As a  result,  the location
       given is not always correct.

AUTHOR
       Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena

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