| PackageDescription | miscellaneous X clients
An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a
graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
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This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of several dozen X clients
that ship with the X Window System, including:
- 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 very dangerous program that you should never use;
- 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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xbase-clients also -- except on the s390 architecture -- contains the XFree86
X server configuration programs xf86cfg and xf86config, but in general the
Debconf interface to the xserver-xfree86 package should be used instead of
these tools.
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The bitmap, editres, viewres, xbiff, xcalc, xconsole, xditview, xedit,
xf86cfg, xman, xsetroot, and xsm programs use bitmap images provided by the
xlibs-data package. xkbcomp uses the XKEYBOARD (XKB) extension configuration
data provided by the xlibs package.
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xrdb requires the C preprocessor (cpp) to process X resource files. The GNU
C preprocessor's "-traditional" support misbehaves in early releases of the
GCC 3.3 series; therefore, this package conflicts with those versions.
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(Strictly speaking, atobm does not depend on any X libraries, but it shares a
manual page with bitmap and bmtoa, and so is grouped with them in this
package.) |