XLSATOMS(1)

🎀 XLSATOMS(1) 🎀 General Commands Manual

Bestie, this is the manual page for xlsatoms, filed under section 1 (General Commands Manual) 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

xlsatoms is the tool that lists interned atoms defined on the server ✨

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

xlsatoms [-options ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so xlsatoms lists the interned atoms 🦋 by default it starts at atom 1 (the lowest atom value the protocol defines) and keeps going until it hits an unknown atom 💀 but if you give it an explicit range, it checks every single atom in that range, even the ones that aren't defined, no cap 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -display dpy — this is how you pick which X server to connect to 🌈
• -format string — the printf-style string used to print each atom's <value,name> pair, in that order (value is an unsigned long and name is a char *) ✨ xlsatoms adds a newline to the end of every line for you 💜 the default is %lu\t%s 🍓
• -range [low]-[high] — the range of atom values to check 🦋 if you skip low, it's just 1 👑 if you skip high, xlsatoms stops at the first undefined atom at or above low 🙈
• -name string — lists one specific atom by name 💖 if that atom doesn't exist, a message gets printed to standard error 😭
• -version — prints the program version and then exits 🫶

🌷 SEE ALSO 🌷

X(7), Xserver(1), xprop(1) — go read these if you're obsessed with the topic 🧚

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DISPLAY — gives the default host and display to use 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium 💜

⚠️ bestie, the -range default for low is 1 and the high default stops at the first undefined atom, so don't be shocked if your listing ends early 💀

Stay iconic and keep those atoms in order, X Version 11 and xlsatoms 1.1.4 are the real MVPs here 🎀✨🫶