xlsclients(1x)

xlsclients1x

List client applications running on a display

Usage

xlsclients [-display displayname] [-a] [-l] [-m maxcmdlen]

Overview

Xlsclients is a utility for listing information about the client applications running on a display. It may be used to generate scripts representing a snapshot of the user's current session.

Options

-display displayname

This option specifies the X server to contact.

-a

This option indicates that clients on all screens should be listed. By default, only those clients on the default screen are listed.

-l

List in long format, giving the window name, icon name, and class hints in addition to the machine name and command string shown in the default format.

-m maxcmdlen

This option specifies the maximum number of characters in a command to print out. The default is 10000.

Environment

DISPLAY

To get the default host, display number, and screen.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.3–2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1

Author

Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium

From xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge7 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.