wininfo(1)

📦 version 0.7, in ubuntu jammy

💖 wininfo(1) — the window info bestie 💖

okay so bestie, you know that one command that lives in the General Commands Manual section 1? Yeah. wininfo. It's a window information utility for X, and it is genuinely about to make you the main character of your X debugging sessions. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wininfo [ OPTION ] ...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, window lore comes out. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

X Window Information is a window information utility for developers of applications, toolkits, and window managers. No cap. It literally follows your pointer around and tells you everything about the windows underneath it, like a little gossip goblin that only deals in X11 facts. 🧚

And what does it spill? Listen:

  • A detailed description of the window hierarchy below the pointer. 🎀
  • Parsed interpretations of standard properties from both the application window and the window manager. 👑
  • Information about X server resources used by the application. 🔥

like… it's giving observability. it's giving "why is my window manager doing that". obsessed. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

X Window Information accepts the standard command line arguments of any Gtk+ application. 🫶

Unfortunately, these seem to be undocumented. 😭 not me having to tell you that fr fr — that's literally what the manual says, so that's what you get. no guessing, no inventing flags, we keep it honest in this group chat.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Billy Biggs. 🌟 (iconic behaviour, honestly.)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too bestie, they're the rest of the friend group. 🎀

and that's the whole page!! 🥳 this was wininfo version 0.7, dated Aug 2004, and it is so back — like, pre-smartphone back, but the X server doesn't care, window info is forever. mwah, love u, go point at some windows. 💖✨🎀🦋💅

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