The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
xycpt – generate GMT colour palette table (cpt) files from column data. Synopsis xycpt [-b rgb] [-d] [-f rgb] [-h] [-n rgb] [-o file] [-r registration] [-u] [-v] [-V] [file]DescriptionThe xycpt program generates discrete or continuous cpt files from simple input describing sample values of the colour (or greyscale) range. The input consists of 1-4 columns. For 2 and 4…
xy2sky – Compute RA Dec from X Y using WCS in FITS and IRAF image files Synopsisxy2sky [-vbjg] [-n ndec] file.fts x1 y1 … xn yn or xy2sky [-bdjgv] [-n ndec] file.fts @listfile Descriptionxy2sky (pronounced X-Y-to-sky) is a utility for getting the world coordinates of a set of image coordinates in a FITS or IRAF…
xxd – make a hexdump or do the reverse. Synopsisxxd -h[elp] xxd [options] [infile [outfile]] xxd -r[evert] [options] [infile [outfile]] Descriptionxxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form. Like uuencode(1) and uudecode(1) it allows the transmission of binary…
xwud – image displayer for X Synopsisxwud [-in file] [-noclick] [-geometry geom] [-display display] [-new] [-std <maptype>] [-raw] [-vis <vis-type-or-id>] [-scale] [-help] [-rv] [-plane number] [-fg color] [-bg color] [-dumpheader] [-version] DescriptionXwud is an X Window System image undumping utility. Xwud allows X users to display in a window an image saved in a specially…
xwininfo – window information utility for X Synopsisxwininfo [-help] [-id wdid] [-root] [-name wdname] [-int] [-children] [-tree] [-stats] [-bits] [-events] [-size] [-wm] [-shape] [-frame] [-all] [-english] [-metric] [-display host:dpy] [-version] DescriptionXwininfo is a utility for displaying information about windows. Various information is displayed depending on which options are selected. If no options are chosen, -stats…
xwdtopnm – convert a X11 or X10 window dump file into a portable anymap Synopsisxwdtopnm [xwdfile] DescriptionReads a X11 or X10 window dump file as input. Produces a portable anymap as output. The type of the output file depends on the input file – if it’s black & white, a pbm file is written, else…
xwd – dump an image of an X window Synopsisxwd [-debug] [-help] [-nobdrs] [-out file] [-xy] [-frame] [-add value] [-root | -id id | -name name ] [-icmap] [-screen] [-silent] [-display display] [-version] DescriptionXwd is an X Window System window dumping utility. Xwd allows X users to store window images in a specially formatted dump…
xvpictoppm – converts XV ‘thumbnail’ files to standard PPM format Syntaxxvpictoppm Descriptionxvpictoppm reads an XV ‘thumbnail’ file (located in the ‘.xvpics’ subdirectories) on stdin, and writes a standard PPM version of same to stdout. This may be useful for putting thumbnails in WWW pages, or something like that. AuthorJohn Bradley – bradley [at] dccs.upenn.edu
vncviewer – VNC viewer for X Synopsisvncviewer [options] [host][:display#] vncviewer [options] -listen [port] Descriptionvncviewer is a viewer (client) for Virtual Network Computing. This manual page documents version 4 for the X window system. If you run the viewer with no arguments it will prompt you for a VNC server to connect to. Alternatively, specify the…
vncviewer – VNC viewer for X Synopsisvncviewer [options] [host][:display#] vncviewer [options] -listen [port] Descriptionvncviewer is a viewer (client) for Virtual Network Computing. This manual page documents version 4 for the X window system. If you run the viewer with no arguments it will prompt you for a VNC server to connect to. Alternatively, specify the…
xvminitoppm – convert a XV "thumbnail" picture to PPM Synopsisxvminitoppm [xvminipic] DescriptionReads a XV "thumbnail" picture (a miniature picture generated by the "VisualSchnauzer" browser) as input. Produces a portable pixmap as output. See Alsoppm(5), xv(1) AuthorCopyright (C) 1993 by Ingo Wilken
xvkbd – virtual keyboard for X window system Descriptionxvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System which provides a facility to enter characters onto other clients (software) by clicking on a keyboard displayed on the screen. This may be used for systems without a hardware keyboard such as kiosk terminals or handheld…
xvinfo – Print out X-Video extension adaptor information Synopsisxvinfo [-display displayname] Descriptionxvinfo prints out the capabilities of any video adaptors associated with the display that are accessible through the X-Video extension. Options-display display This argument allows you to specify the server to query; see X(7). -short Output less details, to reduce the amount of text….
vile, xvile, uxvile, lxvile – VI Like Emacs Synopsisvile [@cmdfile] [+command] [-FhIiRVv] [-gNNN] [-kcryptkey] [-spattern] [-ttag] [filename]… Descriptionvile is a text editor. This man page is fairly terse. More information can be obtained from the internal help, available with the -h option or by using the ":help" command from within vile. xvile is the same…
xvidtune – video mode tuner for Xorg Synopsisxvidtune [ -show | -prev | -next | -unlock ] [ -toolkitoption … ] DescriptionXvidtune is a client interface to the X server video mode extension (XFree86-VidModeExtension). When given one of the non-toolkit options, xvidtune provides a command line interface to either print or switch the video mode….
xvfb-run – run specified X client or command in a virtual X server environment Synopsisxvfb-run [ options ] command Descriptionxvfb-run is a wrapper for the Xvfb(1x) command which simplifies the task of running commands (typically an X client, or a script containing a list of clients to be run) within a virtual X server environment….
xvattr – Query/Set X11 XVideo Setting(s) Synopsisxvattr [options…] This program is used for getting and setting X11 Xv attributes such as XV_BRIGHTNESS, XV_CONTRAST, XV_SATURATION, XV_HUE, XV_COLORKEY, … For this program to work, you must have a version of X11 with the XVideo extension and a graphics card that has Xv graphics acceleration. Note: On some…
xv – interactive image display for the X Window System Syntaxxv [options] [filename[filename…]] DescriptionThe xv program displays images on workstations and terminals running the X Window System, Version 11. Supported image formats include PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, XWD, XPM, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, FITS, Sun Rasterfile, GIF, PCX, Targa/TGA, BMP, WBMP, IRIS RGB,…
xtotroff – convert X font metrics into GNU troff font metrics Synopsis[ -r resolution ] [ -s point-size ] font-map –help -v –version Descriptionxtotroff takes a font-map, which maps groff(1) fonts to X11 fonts, creates GNU troff(1) metric files for all fonts listed. Each line in font-map consists of a groff font name and an…
vncviewer – an X viewer client for VNC Synopsisvncviewer [options] [host][:display] vncviewer [options] [host][::port] vncviewer [options] -listen [display] vncviewer -help Descriptionvncviewer is an Xt-based client application for the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) system. It can connect to any VNC-compatible server such as Xvnc or WinVNC, allowing you to control desktop environment of a different machine….