ascommand(1x)

ascommand1x

Send commands to afterstep

Usage

ascommand [-f file] [-h] [-i] [-v] [-w id] [--] [command]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ascommand command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ascommand is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.

Options

-f --file

input commands from file (- means stdin)

-h --help

this help

-i --interactive starts interactive communication with AfterStep

-v --version

print version information

-w --window-id

window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)

--

end parsing of command line options

command

command to send to AfterStep

If -f - or -i is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output. -i is noisier than -f -.

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–13

Author

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <[email protected]>, using help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From afterstep 2.2.12-18 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.