OBXPROP(1)

💅 OBXPROP — okay bestie, let's read your window's diary

So this page is from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about obxprop — the little tool that spills the tea on what's going on inside an X window. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

openbox — a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

openbox [--help]  [--display DISPLAY]  [--id ID]  [--root]  [--]
        [PROPERTY ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so obxprop is literally a tool for displaying the properties on an x window. It's giving detective energy. 🔍

It does a similar thing to xprop, except — and this is the slay part — obxprop lets you see UTF-8 strings as text. No cursed escape sequences, no guessing. Just vibes. ✨

You can use the --id option to specify a window identifier, and if you don't? Then obxprop will let you pick a window by clicking on it. Point and click, main character energy. 🖱️

Primarily, this tool exists so Openbox users can peek at the value of the _OB_APP_NAME, _OB_APP_CLASS, _OB_APP_ROLE, and _OB_APP_TYPE properties. Those are the ones Openbox uses for matching windows against user-defined application rules. So if your window rules are acting up, this is where you go to find out why. 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

These are the possible options that openbox accepts, bestie — no cap, here's the whole list:

• --help — Shows a summary of the options available. A little menu of your choices. 🎀
• --display DISPLAY — Specify the X display to use. Pick your display, queen. 🖥️
• --id ID — Specify the window identifier for the window whose properties will be displayed. You're telling it exactly which window you want the tea on. 🫖

Similar to xprop, you may pass one or more property names to have openbox limit its output to only the properties requested. So yeah — you can absolutely just ask for the one property you care about instead of reading the entire scroll. Narrow it down, periodt. 🎯

Heads up: the synopsis also lists --root and a bare --, even though they don't get their own entries up in the options list. That's just how the page do. 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Go read these too, they're all iconic in their own way: 👑

• openbox (1)
• openbox-session(1)
• openbox-gnome-session(1)
• openbox-kde-session(1)

Please report bugs to: http://bugzilla.icculus.org/ — fr fr, if something's broken, tell the devs. They want to know. 💖

And that's the whole page, bestie — this one came straight out of the <strong>General Commands Manual</strong> and it's filed under <strong>OBXPROP(1)</strong>. Go forth and inspect some windows. 🦋✨