WATTR(1)

💅 WATTR(1) — get window attributes 🪟✨

okay so this page is from the General Commands Manual, and it’s literally the window-attributes bestie. no cap, she tells you stuff about a window and then dips. 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

wattr — get window attributes 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wattr [bmiowhxy] wid

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

wattr prints information about the window wid to stdout. slay. 💅

What info gets presented depends on the commands you give to wattr. The queried arguments are printed in the order they are requested, separated by a space. very “respect the queue” of it all. ✨

If no commands are given, wattr will return 0 if wid exists, and 1 otherwise. that’s the whole vibe check, bestie. 🫶

• i — prints wid 👑
• b — prints wid’s border width 🎀
• x — prints wid’s x offset 🦋
• y — prints wid’s y offset 🌈
• w — prints wid’s width 💖
• h — prints wid’s height 🌸
• o — wattr returns 0 if the override_redirect attribute is set on the window 🔥
• m — wattr returns 0 if wid is mapped on screen, and 1 otherwise 💀

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🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

wattr acts on the X display specified by the DISPLAY variable. that’s her stage, and she’s main character energy on it. ✨

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

first up, the mapped check:

$ wattr m 0x01000006 && echo ismapped
ismapped

then width, height, x, y in that order:

$ wattr whxy 0x01000006
484 244 756 166

and x, y, height, width in that order:

$ wattr xyhw 0x01000006
756 166 244 484

and the no-window exit-status moment:

$ wattr 0x00000000; echo $?
1

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from wmutils, dated December 13, 2014 — ty for coming to my TED talk 💖🎀