Commands by jackhab (2)

  • Find

    A lot of X applications accept --geometry parameter so that you can set application size and position. But how can you figure out the exact arguments for --geometry? Launch an application, resize and reposition its window as needed, then launch xwininfo in a terminal an click on the application window. You will see some useful window info including its geometry. Show Sample Output


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    xwininfo
    jackhab · 2009-08-13 14:15:39 0
  • Click on a GUI window and show its process ID and command used to run the process

    This command is useful when you want to know what process is responsible for a certain GUI application and what command you need to issue to launch it in terminal. Show Sample Output


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    xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o pid,cmd
    jackhab · 2009-02-16 07:55:19 2

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