XININFO(1)

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🦋 xininfo — NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, <rainbow>xininfo</rainbow> is a tool to query the layout and size of each configured monitor 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xininfo [-monitor id] [-active-mon] [-mon-size] [ -mon-width ] [
-mon-height ] [ -mon-x ] [ -mon-y ] [ -mon-pos ] [ -num-mon ] [
-max-mon-width ] [ -max-mon-height ] [ -print ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

xininfo is an X11 utility, and its whole job is to query the current layout and size of every configured monitor 👑. It is designed to be used by scripts — like, this is a script bestie, not a "click around and vibe" tool, no cap 💅

📜 License

MIT/X11 🎀

🫶 USAGE 🫶

xininfo accepts the following commands. Multiple commands can be concatenated — stack 'em up, the way that you can just keep adding them ✨

All information returned is in number of pixels. Every single one. Pixels only. That's the unit. Periodt 🌈

  • monitor id — sets the queried monitor to id. By default it uses the active monitor 💖
  • active-mon — queries the id of the active monitor. Prints: id
  • mon-size — gets the size of the monitor. Prints: width height
  • mon-width — gets the width of the monitor: Prints: width
  • mon-height — gets the height of the monitor: Prints: height
  • mon-x — gets the x position of the monitor: Prints: x
  • mon-y — gets the y position of the monitor: Prints: y
  • mon-pos — gets the position of the monitor: Prints: x y
  • num-mon — queries the number of configured monitors. Prints: #monitors
  • max-mon-width — queries the width of the monitor with the most horizontal pixels 🌈 Prints: width
  • max-mon-height — queries the height of the monitor with the most vertical pixels 🌈 Prints: width
not me noticing that one says width and not height 🙈 — yeah, that's literally what the page says, bestie, I'm just the messenger 💀
  • print — prints out all information in a human readable format 📖 (the full ✨ main character ✨ dump, iykyk)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Qball Cow ⟨qball@gmpclient.org⟩ 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — this came off the xininfo manual, the XININFO(1) one, filed under General Commands Manual. go query some monitors, slay 💅✨

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