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xwatchwin allows you to peek at a window on another X server.
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To use it, you must specify the display name of the machine you want
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to watch, then the name of the window on that machine.
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Xwatchwin will attempt to connect with the X server
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hostname:0.0, and if successful, will try to retrieve a copy of
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the window in which you specified interest.
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You may specify the window you want to watch either by name or by its
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window id, usually a hexidecimal number. Usually specifying the
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window by name is simpler, although not all windows have names
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associated with them; in that case you must use the window id option.
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If the window you want to watch is not in a viewable state,
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xwatchwin will tell you so and exit. If while you are watching
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a window it becomes 'unviewable', xwatchwin will wait until the
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window becomes 'viewable' again.
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xwatchwin was written as an aid to a class for people learning
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to use X. The idea is that the instructor would type into an xterm
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window on his/her display and the students would use xwatchwin
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to see what the instructor typed. The students could then type the
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same thing in their own terminal windows. Hopefully others will find
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equally (if not more) constructive uses.
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