パッケージ: xbase-clients (1:7.1.ds1-2)

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).

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;
 - iceauth, a tool for manipulating ICE protocol authorization records;
 - 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;
 - 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.

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.

(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.)

This package no longer provides the 'mkfontscale' program; it has instead been moved to xutils.