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xwininfo — Display information about windows. See also: `xprop`, `xkill`. More information: <https://www.x.org/
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xwininfo command: Display information about windows. See also: xprop, xkill. More information: <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man1/xwininfo.1.xhtml>.Solution
xwininfo — Display information about windows. See also: xprop, xkill. More information: <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man1/xwininfo.1.xhtml>.Display a cursor to select a window to display its attributes (id, name, size, position, ...):
xwininfoDisplay the tree of all windows:
xwininfo -tree -rootDisplay the attributes of a window with a specific ID:
xwininfo -id {{id}}Display the attributes of a window with a specific name:
xwininfo -name {{name}}Display the ID of a window searching by name:
xwininfo -tree -root | grep {{keyword}} | head -1 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /(0x[\da-f]+)/ig;'Code Snippets
Display a cursor to select a window to display its attributes (id, name, size, position, ...)
xwininfoDisplay the tree of all windows
xwininfo -tree -rootDisplay the attributes of a window with a specific ID
xwininfo -id {{id}}Display the attributes of a window with a specific name
xwininfo -name {{name}}Display the ID of a window searching by name
xwininfo -tree -root | grep {{keyword}} | head -1 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /(0x[\da-f]+)/ig;'Context
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