| PackageDescription | X applications
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 X applications
that ship with the X Window System, including:
- bitmap,
- oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
- 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;
- xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
- xcursorgen;
- xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
- xedit, a text editor;
- xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
- xgc, a graphics demo;
- 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;
- xmore;
- xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session;
- xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
- Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical
operations under the X Window System;
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The xbiff, xcalc, xconsole, xedit and xman programs use bitmap images provided
by the xbitmaps package. |