Closed mithro closed 4 years ago
(I'm opening this issue as I hope to send you a pull request with a fix soon.)
xdpyinfo won't necessarily be installed, though.
We can probably try a bunch of different tools (xeyes was a previous test tool :-)
Other X11 tools:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/x11-apps
- atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images;
- ico, a demo program animating polyhedrons;
- oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
- rendercheck, a program to test render extension implementations;
- transset, a tool to set opacity property on a window;
- 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, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs;
- xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
- xedit, a simple text editor for X;
- 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, a text pager;
- 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;
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/x11-utils
- appres, editres, listres and viewres, which query the X resource database;
- luit, a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a
UTF-8 terminal emulator;
- xdpyinfo, a display information utility for X;
- xdriinfo, query configuration information of DRI drivers;
- xev, an X event displayer;
- xfd, a tool that displays all the glyphs in a given X font;
- xfontsel, a tool for browsing and selecting X fonts;
- xkill, a tool for terminating misbehaving X clients;
- 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;
- xmessage, a tool to display message or dialog boxes;
- xprop, a property displayer for X;
- xvinfo, an Xv extension information utility for X;
- xwininfo, a window information utility for X;
Check with xdpyinfo
is implemented.
(Fix this TODO)
We use the
xdpyinfo
tool in our own code to check if a X server is working.Code something like this would work;