Xbase-clients

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Xbase-Clients is a suite of tools and utilities for the X Window System.

[edit] Included Tools

  • startx and xinit, which initialize X sessions from the command line;
  • xauth, a tool for controlling access to the X session;
  • xedit, a text editor;
  • xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
  • xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
  • xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
  • xcutsel, which exchanges selection and cut buffer contents;
  • xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
  • xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
  • xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
  • xfd, a tool that displays all the glyphs in a given X font;
  • xfontsel, a tool for browsing and selecting X fonts;
  • xhost, a tool which is used to add or revert access to the X server for specified hosts (aside from this, it is generally known as an exceedingly dangerous application to use as if used improperly it can allow any host to access your X server, essentially giving the world free access to your entire computer);
  • xkill, a tool for terminating misbehaving X clients;
  • xload, a monitor for the system load average;
  • xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
  • xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
  • xman, a manual page browser;
  • xmessage, a tool to display message or dialog boxes;
  • xrandr, a command-line interface to the RandR extension;
  • xrefresh, a tool that forces a redraw of the X screen;
  • xsetroot, a tool for tailoring the appearance of the root window;
  • xtrapchar, xtrapin, xtrapinfo, xtrapout, xtrapproto, xtrapreset, and
  • xtrapstats, a group of sample clients that use the XTrap extension;
  • xvidtune, a tool for customizing X server modelines for your monitor;
  • xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session;
  • xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
  • oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
  • beforelight, a screen saver;
  • atobm, a converter from ASCII to X bitmap (.xbm) files;
  • bitmap, a monochrome bitmap file editor;
  • bmtoa, a tool that converts a monochrome bitmap to ASCII text;
  • cxpm and sxpm, tools for checking and viewing X pixmap files;
  • dpsexec, a Display PostScript program that allows the user to interact
  • directly with the PostScript interpreter through a command interface
  • dpsinfo, a utility for displaying information about the DPS extension present in an X server or provided by a client-side DPS agent
  • glxgears, a GLX demo that draws three rotating gears, and prints framerate information to standard output
  • iceauth, a tool for manipulating ICE protocol authorization records;
  • texteroids, a spinning text demo for the DPS extension
  • xset, a tool for setting miscellaneous X server parameters;
  • xmodmap, a utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in X;
  • xsetmode and xsetpointer, tools for handling X Input devices;
  • setxkbmap, xkbbell, xkbcomp, xkbevd, xkbprint, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch, tools for managing the X Keyboard Extension (XKB);
  • xsm, a session manager for X sessions;
  • smproxy, a session manager proxy for X clients that do not use the X session manager protocol;
  • xgamma, a tool for querying and setting a monitor's gamma correction;appres, editres, listres, viewres, and xrdb, which query and update the X resource database;
  • Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical operations under the X Window System;
  • fstobdf, which retrieves a font in BDF format from an X font server;
  • xcmsdb, a device color characteristic utility for the X Color Management System;
  • xstdcmap, a utility to selectively define standard colormap properties;
  • xev, an X event displayer;
  • xfindproxy, a tool to locate X proxy services;
  • xlsatoms, which lists interned atoms defined on an X server;
  • xlsclients, which lists client applications running on an X display;
  • xlsfonts, a server font list displayer;
  • xprop, a property displayer for X;
  • xdpyinfo, a display information utility for X;
  • xwininfo, a window information utility for X;
  • glxinfo, a GLX extension information utility for X;
  • xvinfo, an Xv extension information utility for X;
  • ico, an X graphics demo using an animated polyhedron;
  • dga, a demo program for the DGA extension; and
  • xgc, an (unfinished) X graphics demo program.

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