propwatch(1) General Commands Manual propwatch(1)
NAME
propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties
SYNOPSIS
propwatch [ toolkit-options ] property-name ...
DESCRIPTION
propwatch is a tool to monitor window properties of root and application windows. Nice for debugging property-based IPC of X11 programs.
OPTIONS
propwatch uses the Athena Widgets and accepts the usual toolkit options like -geometry.
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 set will be used.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY
specifies the display to use for the propwatch window.
PROPWATCH
specifies the display to monitor. It unset, DISPLAY will be used.
SEE ALSO
xprop(1), xhost(1), xauth(1)
AUTHOR
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997-99 Gerd Knorr
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
(c) 1998,99 Gerd Knorr propwatch(1)