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XOSD displays text on your screen, sounds simple right? The difference is it is unmanaged and shaped, so it appears transparent. This gives the effect of an On Screen Display, like your TV/VCR etc.. The package also includes an xmms plugin, which automatically displays various interesting things as they change (song name, volume etc...)
XOSD displays text on your screen, sounds simple right? The difference is it is unmanaged and shaped, so it appears transparent. This gives the effect of an On Screen Display, like your TV/VCR etc.
The xosview utility displays a set of bar graphs which show the current system state, including memory usage, CPU usage, system load, etc. Xosview runs under the X Window System.
The xprop utility is for displaying window and font properties in an X server.
xrandr is a commandline utility to set the size, orientation and/or reflection of the outputs for an X screen. It can also set the screen size and turn outputs on and off..
xrdb is used to get or set the contents of the RESOURCE_MANAGER property on the root window of screen 0, or the SCREEN_RESOURCES property on the root window of any or all screens, or everything combined.
A utility to monitor application usage of X resources in the X Server, and display them in a manner similar to 'top'. This is a very useful utility for tracking down application X resource usage leaks.