Xbase-clients

Xbase-Clients is a suite of tools and utilities for the X Window System.

Included Tools

• editres, which queries and updates the X resource database
• startx and xinit, which initialize X sessions from the command line
• xauth, a tool for controlling access to the X session
• 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
• xedit, a text editor
• xev, an X event displayer
• xhost, a tool which is used to add or revert access to the X server for specified hosts (aside from this, it is generally known as an exceedingly dangerous application to use as if used improperly it can allow any host to access your X server, essentially giving the world free access to your entire computer)
• xman, a manual page browser
• Xmark, tool for benchmarking graphical operations
• xrandr, a command-line interface to the RandR extension
• xsm, a session manager for X sessions
• xwd and xwud, utilities for taking and viewing window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session

Demos

• xeyes, in which a pair of eyes track the pointer

See also

• xterm

External links

• XBaseClients