.TH propwatch 1 "(c) 1997-2003 Gerd Knorr" .SH NAME propwatch - a tool to monitor X11 properties .SH SYNOPSIS .B propwatch [ options ] property-name ... .SH DESCRIPTION .B propwatch is a tool to monitor window properties of root and application windows. Nice for debugging property-based IPC of X11 programs. .SH OPTIONS .B propwatch uses the Athena Widgets and accepts the usual toolkit options like -display and -geometry. .P Additional options are: .TP .B -watch display Display to monitor the windows on. By default the display specified in the DISPLAY environment variable or via -display is used, but it is possible to watch another display instead. .TP .B -verbose be verbose. .TP .B -proplog Log property changes to stdout. .TP .B -kbdlog Log keystrokes to stdout. .P All remaining command line arguments are assumed to be property names which should be monitored. If no property names are specified, a build in default (WM_COMMAND) will be used. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B DISPLAY specifies the display to use for the propwatch window. .SH SEE ALSO xprop(1), xhost(1), xauth(1), xwd(1) .SH AUTHOR Gerd Knorr .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Gerd Knorr .br This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.