Alan Coopersmith wrote: > xprop is a command line utility to print window & font properties. > This release adds a new output type for displaying _NET_WM_ICONs > as ASCII/UTF-8 art, as well as a couple other output improvements, > and the usual janitorial cleanups.
For those looking for small programming tasks to get into the client-side code base, I've also filed this suggestion for similar work that could be done to xprop: - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24483 xprop should display UTF8_STRING properties as text (for which the hardest part is making sure the bytes are valid UTF-8 strings before trying to print them and crashing - there's lots of references in google for UTF-8 validation, but I'm not sure if there's an existing C language validation function in a common library) as well as a question listed in the utilities section of http://www.x.org/wiki/ToDo : - Should xprop work with input device (Xi2) and output device (randr) properties too? and of course, rewriting the whole thing to use libxcb asynchronous calls instead of libX11 should greatly cut down on time waiting for round trips, much like the recent (though not yet integrated) work on xlsclients: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4232 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2009-September/thread.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
