CNEE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to CNEE(1) — a General Commands Manual page, no big deal 💅

cnee — record, replays or distributes X11 data ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cnee [options]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, the program cnee can record and replay an X session, and it also has the ability to distribute events to multiple displays. it's giving main character energy fr fr.

cnee gets copies of X protocol data from the X server 👑. those copies are either printed to file (that's record mode) or replayed and synchronised (that's replay mode). and get this — during record and replay, cnee can distribute the record/replayed events to multiple displays 🦋. multitasking icon.

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✨ GENERAL OPTIONS ✨

• --err-file, -e <file> — redirect all Xnee verbose output to file_name (default is stderr) 🙈
• --out-file, -o <file> — redirect all Xnee data to file_name (default is stdout) 💌
• --display, -d <displayname> — the X server to contact (default is localhost)
• --all-clients, -ac — record all client's data (this is the default, periodt)
• --data-to-record, -dtr <n> — intercept n numbers of data (if n<0 that means forever ♾️)
• --time, -t <secs> — delay start of application for secs seconds. can be used to prevent recording of KeyRelease when starting Xnee from terminal 🕐
• --record, -rec — set recording mode 🔴
• --replay, -rep — set replaying mode ▶️
• --distribute, -di <LIST> — distribute recorded or replayed events to LIST, where LIST is a comma separated list of displays 📡
• --future-clients, -fc — record future client's data (default, bestie)
• --plugin, -p <name — use the plugin name 🧩
• --verbose, -v — enable verbose printout 🗣️
• --feedback-xosd, -fx — use xosd to feedback
• --feedback-stderr, -fs — use stderr to feedback
• --feedback-none, -fn — don't use feedback (shhh 🤫)
• --device-event-range, -devera <X_LIST> — set device event range to X_LIST
• --keep-autorepeat, -ka — keep autorepeat during record/replay 🔁
• --no-reparent-recording, -nrr — prevent explicit recording of ReparentNotify event

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🔴 RECORD OPTIONS 🔴

• --first-last — print only first and last of multiple successive MotionEvent
• --all-events — intercept all events
• --events-to-record, -etr <n> — intercept n numbers of events (if n<0 that means forever ♾️)
• --seconds-to-record, -str <n> — intercept for n seconds (if n<0 that means forever ♾️)
• --recorded-resolution <res> — resolution to use when recording is set to res
• --human-printout, -hp — prints human readable 🧚
• --store-mouse-position, -smp — store the initial position of the mouse 🐭
• --request-range, -reqra <X_LIST> — set request range to X_LIST
• --reply-range, -repra <X_LIST> — set reply range to X_LIST
• --delivered-event-range, -devra <X_LIST> — set delivered event range to X_LIST
• --error-range, -erra <X_LIST> — set error range to X_LIST
• --extension-request-major-range, -erqmar <X_LIST> — set extension request major range to X_LIST
• --extension-request-minor-range, -erqmir <X_LIST> — set extension request minor range to X_LIST
• --extension-reply-major-range, -erpmar <X_LIST> — set extension reply major range to X_LIST
• --extension-reply-minor-range, -erpmir <X_LIST> — set extension reply minor range to X_LIST
• --record-from-data-display, -rfdd — record from data display. > this option is experimental 🧪
• --record-from-control-display, -rfcd — record from control display. > this option is experimental 🧪

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▶️ REPLAY OPTIONS ▶️

• --speed-percent, -sp <speed> — set replaying speed percentage is set to speed
• --replay-resolution <res> — resolution to use when replaying is set to res
• --resolution-adjustment — use resolution adjustment
• --synchronised-replay — synchronise during replay 🪄
• --no-synchronise, -ns — don't use synchornisation during replay
• --recall-window-position, -rwp — recall the recorded window position to be used during replay 🪟
• --force-replay, -fp — keep replaying even if we are out of sync .... dangerous 💀 (bestie, seriously, it says dangerous)
• --buffer-verbose, -bv — enable verbose printout of replay buffer
• --max-threshold, -mat <nr> — set the maximum threshold for sync to nr
• --min-threshold, -mit <nr> — set the minimum threshold for sync to tnr
• --tot-threshold, -tot <nr> — set the total threshold for sync to nr
• --replay-offset, -ro <x,y> — set the replay offset to (x,y)
• --max-window-moves, -mwm — maximum times Xnee will try to move a window to the position it was in when recorded

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👑 CNEE OPTIONS 👑

• --file, -f <file_name> — read data from file file_name (default is stdin)
• --help, -h — print this message 🆘
• --flags — prints all flags/options xnee accepts 🚩
• --project, -pr <file_name> — use project file file_name
• --version, -V — print product information
• --retype-file <file> — types (faking user) the contents of the specified file ⌨️
• --write-settings <file> — writes settings to a resource file
• --print-settings, -ps — prints Xnee settings and waits (for <ENTER>) ⏸️
• --print-event-names, -pens — prints X11 event number and name
• --print-event-name, -pen <ev> — prints X11 event number or name coresponding to ev
• --print-error-names, -perns — prints X11 error number and name
• --print-error-name, -pern <er> — prints X11 error number or name coresponding to er
• --print-reply-names, -pren — prints X11 reply number and name
• --print-request-names, -prns — prints X11 request number and name
• --print-request-name, -prn <req> — prints X11 request number or name coresponding to req
• --keyboard — record the keyboard ⌨️
• --mouse — record mouse events 🐭
• --print-data-names, -pdn — prints X11 data number and name
• --manpage — prints Xnee help text in format as used when generating man page 📄
• --texipage — prints Xnee help text in format as used when generating info page 📄
• --type-help — type this help message using faked keys (used to test xnee itself) 🪞
• --demonstration, -demo — let Xnee take you on a demonstration ride 🎢
• --check-syntax, -cs — check syntax of the command line and/or project file (no exec) ✅
• --get-xinput-event-base, -gxeb — get the event base for Xinput Extension
• --disable-xinput-events, -dxe — disable recording of XInput events 🚫
• --replay-backend, -rb — <backend>
• --force-core-replay, -fcr — discard record X Input device data, use recorded core device data
• --record-replay, -rr — record and replay a session (press q to stop recording) 🎬

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📝 COMMENTS 📝

here's the lil glossary of what all those placeholders mean, bestie 🫶

• file_name — name of a file (e.g /tmp/my_file.xns)
• display_name — name of a display (e.g 192.168.1.12:0
• secs — seconds (e.g 10)
• n — integer number (e.g 100)
• LIST — comma separated list of display (e.g 192.168.1.12:0,129.12.23.0:0)
• X_LIST — comma separated list of integers (e.g 12-23,35,45-56)

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

cnee --record --events-to-record 1000 --mouse --keyboard -o
/tmp/xnee.xns -e /tmp/xnee.log -v

records 1000 events (keyboard and mouse) to file /tmp/xnee.xns and dumps the verbose printout to /tmp/xnee.log 🔥

cnee --replay -f /tmp/xnee.xns -v -e /tmp/xnee.log -ns

read data from /tmp/xnee.xns, replay it and verbose print to file /tmp/xnee.log ✨

for more examples, read the Xnee manual 📖

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Henrik Sandklef.

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

report bugs in the program to bug-xnee@gnu.org.

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Henrik Sandklef.

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

cnee(info), xnee(info), xev(1)

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

xnee man page, version 3.19

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🦋 NOTES 🦋

this page describes cnee. mail corrections and additions to bug-xnee@gnu.org

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and that's the whole page bestie 💅 this one's from the xnee source, dated 2007, and it lives in section CNEE(1) — iconic, no cap 🌸✨👑