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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, …):

xwininfo

  • Display the tree of all windows:

xwininfo -tree -root

  • Display 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;'

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