# xwininfo(1) - man - phpMan [XWININFO(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XWININFO/1/markdown) General Commands Manual [XWININFO(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XWININFO/1/markdown) ## NAME xwininfo - window information utility for X ## SYNOPSIS **xwininfo** [-help] [-id _wdid_] [-root] [-name _wdname_] [-int] [-children] [-tree] [-stats] [-bits] [-events] [-size] [-wm] [-shape] [-frame] [-all] [-english] [-metric] [-display _host:dpy_] [-version] ## DESCRIPTION _Xwininfo_ is a utility for displaying information about windows. Various information is dis‐ played depending on which options are selected. If no options are chosen, **-stats** is assumed. The user has the option of selecting the target window with the mouse (by clicking any mouse button in the desired window) or by specifying its window id on the command line with the **-id** option. Or instead of specifying the window by its id number, the **-name** option may be used to specify which window is desired by name. There is also a special **-root** option to quickly obtain information on the screen's root window. ## OPTIONS ### -help ### -id This option allows the user to specify a target window _wdid_ on the command line rather than using the mouse to select the target window. This is very useful in de‐ bugging X applications where the target window is not mapped to the screen or where the use of the mouse might be impossible or interfere with the application. ### -name This option allows the user to specify that the window named _wdname_ is the target window on the command line rather than using the mouse to select the target window. ### -root situations where the root window is completely obscured. ### -int The default is to display them as hexadecimal values. ### -children This option causes the root, parent, and children windows' ids and names of the se‐ lected window to be displayed. ### -tree -children ### -stats appearance of the selected window. Information displayed includes the location of the window, its width and height, its depth, border width, visual id and class, col‐ ormap id if any, map state, backing-store hint, and location of the corners. ### -bits dow's raw bits and how the selected window is to be stored. Displayed information includes the selected window's bit gravity, window gravity, backing-store hint, back‐ ing-planes value, backing pixel, and whether or not the window has save-under set. ### -events mask of events wanted by some client and the event mask of events not to propagate are displayed. ### -size formation includes: for both the normal size hints and the zoom size hints, the user supplied location if any; the program supplied location if any; the user supplied size if any; the program supplied size if any; the minimum size if any; the maximum size if any; the resize increments if any; and the minimum and maximum aspect ratios if any. ### -wm formation displayed may include whether or not the application accepts input, what the window's icon window # and name is, where the window's icon should go, and what the window's initial state should be. ### -shape played. ### -frame windows. ### -metric played in millimeters as well as number of pixels, based on what the server thinks the resolution is. Geometry specifications that are in **+x+y** form are not changed. ### -english This option causes all individual height, width, and x and y positions to be dis‐ played in inches (and feet, yards, and miles if necessary) as well as number of pix‐ els. **-metric** and **-english** may both be enabled at the same time. ### -all ### -d, -display This option allows you to specify the server to connect to; see [_X(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/X/7/markdown)_. ### -version This option indicates that _xwininfo_ should print its version information and exit. ## EXAMPLE The following is a sample summary taken with no options specified: xwininfo: Window id: 0x60000f "xterm" Absolute upper-left X: 2 Absolute upper-left Y: 85 Relative upper-left X: 0 Relative upper-left Y: 25 Width: 579 Height: 316 Depth: 8 Visual: 0x1e Visual Class: PseudoColor Border width: 0 Class: InputOutput Colormap: 0x27 (installed) Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity Backing Store State: NotUseful Save Under State: no Map State: IsViewable Override Redirect State: no Corners: +2+85 -699+85 -699-623 +2-623 -geometry 80x24+0+58 ## ENVIRONMENT **DISPLAY** To get the default host and display number. ## SEE ALSO [_X_(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/X/7/markdown), [_xprop_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xprop/1/markdown), [_xdpyinfo_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xdpyinfo/1/markdown), [_xdriinfo_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xdriinfo/1/markdown), [_xvinfo_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/xvinfo/1/markdown), [_glxinfo_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/glxinfo/1/markdown) ## BUGS Using **-stats** **-bits** shows some redundant information. The **-geometry** string displayed must make assumptions about the window's border width and the behavior of the application and the window manager. As a result, the location given is not always correct. ## AUTHOR Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena X Version 11 xwininfo 1.1.5 [XWININFO(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/XWININFO/1/markdown)