Thanks for all your tips/ideas! On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:19:22 +0200 "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:09:09PM +0200, pancake wrote: > > I am looking for an X11 protocol sniffer or something similar, I know that > > there is an X11 proxy, but needs to translate all the queries to a plain > > text format or so. > > > > I want to debug some apps to try to find which calls they do against the > > server. an LD_PRELOAD is not suitable probably. > > I think the best way might be an Xlib-Wrapper, which writes a > log and is linked to the real Xlib. So by changing ldconfig you > could let those apps report any Xlib call first into your log, > before they are handled to the real Xlib. Dunno if such beast > exists. > > Alternatively you could sniff the raw connections using tcp > duplicators when running the X server in tcp mode. > But I'm not sure such raw dumps might be of much use, since you > will need a low level X protocol analyzer. I'd favorize the > Xlib-Wrapper, and I bet there exists something like that > already. > > Regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361 > --pancake
