XTV(1)

✨ XTV(1) ✨

okay bestie, so you know how you can't just… be at your computer, but your computer's screen is somewhere else? Yeah. This is the page for xtv, from the General Commands Manual, section 1 💅. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

🎀 NAME 🎀

xtv — grabs the screen of a remote X display 👑 like, it literally reaches across the network and yoinks the pixels. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xtv [options]

That's it. That's the whole vibe. Just the command and whatever options you wanna throw at it ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea, bestie 🫖: xtv grabs the screen of a remote X display — one that you have access to, obviously, we're not doing crimes — and then it can continually refresh that screen grab, which turns that whole display into a "TV" 📺. Hence the name. iykyk.

Like… it's giving "watching your remote machine like it's cable." Main character energy fr fr.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

Okay so here's every single flag, and I'm not skipping a single one because I love you 🫶

• -h — Prints out the usage. The classic. The "help me bestie" flag 🙈
• -s refresh_timeout — How often to update the screen grab. So like, how fast your lil TV refreshes ⏱️✨
• -d display — The display to grab the screen from. Point it at the remote display you're tryna watch 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

Not me having to tell you this 😭 but: you can't grab the screen from a display of differing bit-depth. And before you come for it — due to the nature of X and what not, this would be particularly difficult to fix. So. It's just like that. Periodt 💅

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

rancurel@capmedia.fr 👑

And this manual page was written by Jay Kominek <jkominek@debian.org>, for Debian. Shoutout to Jay, absolute icon 🎀✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — XTV(1), General Commands Manual, signed, sealed, delivered 💖 go grab a remote screen and make it a TV, you've got this 🦋🌈⭐