xwininfo

Display information about windows. See also: xprop, xkill. More information: <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man1/xwininfo.1.xhtml>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xwininfo.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install x11-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install x11-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xorg-xwininfo
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install x11-utils
CentOS
yum install xorg-x11-utils
Fedora
dnf install xorg-x11-utils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install x11-utils
Raspbian
apt-get install x11-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/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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