XLSCLIENTS(1)

💖 xlsclients(1) 💖

General Commands Manual 🎀 this is the page for xlsclients, bestie!

✨ NAME ✨

xlsclients — list client applications running on a display 🦋

👑 SYNOPSIS 👑

xlsclients [-display displayname] [-a] [-l] [-m maxcmdlen] [-version]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so xlsclients is a utility that lists info about all the client apps currently running on a display 💅 ngl it's giving organized. You can even use it to generate scripts that capture a snapshot of the user's current session 📸✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -display displayname — this one tells it which X server to contact 🌈
• -a — lowkey the big one: this lists clients on all screens 🖥️ By default it only shows clients on the default screen, so use this if you want the full tea ☕
• -l — long format time 🧚 You get the window name, icon name, and class hints on top of the machine name and command string you'd see normally 💜
• -m maxcmdlen — sets the max number of characters of a command that gets printed 🍓 The default is 10000, so it's already generous, periodt 💅
• -version — prints the program version and then exits 🫶

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• DISPLAY — this is where it grabs the default host, display number, and screen from 🌷

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

X(7), xwininfo(1), xprop(1) 💫 go check these out if you want to keep going, they're literally iconic 🔥

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium 🎓 the legend himself 👑

X Version 11 🌈 xlsclients 1.1.5 💖 XLSCLIENTS(1) ✨ that's the whole page, bestie, you're literally unstoppable now 🫶🦋💅