Display Servers

Wikipedia: Display Server Wikipedia: List of Display servers

In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens.

Xorg Display Server

• Archwiki: Xorg

Clipboard

Xorg offeres two clipboard:

• primary - which activates with middle mouse click
• seconday
• clipboard - which is the proper clipboard
• buffer-cut

Access these with, xclip -selection [type]

Commands

these runs specifically on which were made for xorg

• xbacklight - adjust backlight brightness using RandR extension
• xcalc - calculator
• xchop - pacman game clone
• xclip - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)
• xclock - clock
• xcwd - get current directory opened in the focused windows, like terminal
• xdotool - command-line X11 automation tool
• xdpyinfo - display information utility for X
• xditview - display ditroff output
• xedit - text editor
• xeyes - eyes follow cursor
• xfd - display all the characters in an X font
• xev - print contents of X events
  • capture all inputs in xserver
  • useful to find the keycode for used in other programs configuration
• xkill - kill a client by its X resource
• xprop - property displayer for X
  • property displayer for X
• xsel - manipulate the X selection.
  • xsel -b > mpv.png
  • xsel -b > mpv.png
  • xsel -b mpx.png
  • xsel | festival --tts
  • xsel | festival --tts
  • xsel | festival --tts
• xwd - dump an image of an X window
• xman - gui manual
• xmessage - display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo)
• xprintidle - utility printing user's idle time in X
• xrandr - X Resize, Rotate and Reflection extension
• xrdb - X server resource database utility
  • X server resource database utility
  • xrdb -query
  • xrdb -query -all
  • xrdb -query | grep dpi
• xset - user preference utility for X
• xsm - X Session Manager
• xwininfo - window information utility for X

Wayland Display Server

• https://wayland.freedesktop.org/