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propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties

propwatch [ options ] property-name ...

propwatch is a tool to monitor window properties of root and application windows. Nice for debugging property-based IPC of X11 programs.

propwatch uses the Athena Widgets and accepts the usual toolkit options like -display and -geometry.

Additional options are:

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.
be verbose.
Log property changes to stdout.
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.

specifies the display to use for the propwatch window.

xprop(1), xhost(1), xauth(1), xwd(1)

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

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