Re: Tweeking X11

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Well, I sorta got part of the info  --  root  is 0x55b

So how do I change the root-window? Smaller in the y-direction?



On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
>
> At Thu, 29 May 2025 11:24:24 -0400, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Tweeking X11
> >
> > So, I re-read this today:
> >
> > bash-5.1$ xprop -id 0x120001f  _NET_WM_NAME
> > _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "KWin"
> >
> > Are you giving *WM_NAME a var , or name???
>
> Not "giving" -- answering!
>
> "xprop" is asking a question (specified by its parameter).
>
> Its output is the answer.
>
>     "parameter(type) = value"
>
> > > bash-5.1$ xprop -root _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK
> > > _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK(WINDOW): window id # 0x120001f
> > > bash-5.1$ xprop -id 0x120001f  _NET_WM_NAME
> > > _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "KWin"
>
> For example I see:
>
>     $ xprop -id $(xprop -root _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK | awk '{print $NF}') _NET_WM_NAME
>     _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "ctwm"
>
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