propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties
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Copyright
Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Gerd Knorr
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
(c) 1997-2003 Gerd Knorr propwatch(1)
Description
propwatch is a tool to monitor window properties of root and application windows. Nice for debugging
property-based IPC of X11 programs.
Environment
DISPLAY
specifies the display to use for the propwatch window.
Name
propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties
Options
propwatch uses the Athena Widgets and accepts the usual toolkit options like -display and -geometry.
Additional options are:
-watchdisplay
Display to monitor the windows on. By default the display specified in the DISPLAY environment
variable or via -display is used, but it is possible to watch another display instead.
-verbose
be verbose.
-proplog
Log property changes to stdout.
-kbdlog
Log keystrokes to stdout.
All remaining command line arguments are assumed to be property names which should be monitored. If no
property names are specified, a build in default (WM_COMMAND) will be used.
See Also
xprop(1), xhost(1), xauth(1), xwd(1)
Synopsis
propwatch[options]property-name...
