linux | Twise Random https://twiserandom.com A site about computer science . Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:30:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://twiserandom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-abstract-color-32x32.jpg linux | Twise Random https://twiserandom.com 32 32 The man linux command https://twiserandom.com/tutorials/the-man-linux-command/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:03:02 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=8258 The man command, is used to display a man page . It takes the name of the manual page to display, which is usually the same as the name of a command, or a function, or a special device… By … Read More

The post The man linux command first appeared on Twise Random.]]> The man command, is used to display a man page . It takes the name of the manual page to display, which is usually the same as the name of a command, or a function, or a special device… By … Read More

The post The man linux command first appeared on Twise Random.]]> The whatis linux command https://twiserandom.com/tutorials/the-whatis-linux-command/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 06:58:14 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=8236 whatis is used to search in a case insensitive way, the mandb database, for the name of a command, a library function, or a system call… in order to display its description.

whatis only searches the database keys, and … Read More

The post The whatis linux command first appeared on Twise Random.]]> whatis is used to search in a case insensitive way, the mandb database, for the name of a command, a library function, or a system call… in order to display its description.

whatis only searches the database keys, and … Read More

The post The whatis linux command first appeared on Twise Random.]]> xprop a tutorial https://twiserandom.com/unix/x11/tools/xprop-a-tutorial/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:18:59 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=6875  

Let us start by defining what is xprop. xprop is simply a tool, to query, set, and remove the properties of an X11 window .

Additionally, using xprop, you can query X11 core fonts attributes, so you … Read More

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Let us start by defining what is xprop. xprop is simply a tool, to query, set, and remove the properties of an X11 window .

Additionally, using xprop, you can query X11 core fonts attributes, so you … Read More

The post xprop a tutorial first appeared on Twise Random.]]> What is a property in X11? https://twiserandom.com/unix/x11/what-is-a-property-in-x11/ Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:17:35 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=6595  

In X11, a property simply has a name, a type, a format, a value, and is associated with a window.

There is a set of functions, provided by X11, which allows manipulating a property, and they … Read More

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In X11, a property simply has a name, a type, a format, a value, and is associated with a window.

There is a set of functions, provided by X11, which allows manipulating a property, and they … Read More

The post What is a property in X11? first appeared on Twise Random.]]> What is an atom in X11? https://twiserandom.com/unix/x11/what-is-an-atom-in-x11/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:20:32 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=6551  

An atom in X11, is of type Atom, which is defined in the <X11/Xatom.h header, as :

typedef unsigned long Atom;		/* Also in Xdefs.h */

An atom is 32 bits, the reason, that long was chosen, … Read More

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An atom in X11, is of type Atom, which is defined in the <X11/Xatom.h header, as :

typedef unsigned long Atom;		/* Also in Xdefs.h */

An atom is 32 bits, the reason, that long was chosen, … Read More

The post What is an atom in X11? first appeared on Twise Random.]]> X11 fonts a tutorial https://twiserandom.com/unix/x11-fonts-a-tutorial/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:25:53 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=6528  

In X11, you can use multiple font systems, practically there is the X11 core font system , core as in being part of the core protocol, and there is a newer font system, called the xft font … Read More

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In X11, you can use multiple font systems, practically there is the X11 core font system , core as in being part of the core protocol, and there is a newer font system, called the xft font … Read More

The post X11 fonts a tutorial first appeared on Twise Random.]]> WSL gui applications, using X11 server https://twiserandom.com/microsoft/windows/wsl-gui-applications-using-x11-server/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:50:39 +0000 https://twiserandom.com/?p=6467  

X11 can be used to run and create GUI applications, under Linux. With WSL you can install a bare-bone Linux distribution, under windows.

This installed distro, does actually lack X11, so in order to run GUI applications from … Read More

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X11 can be used to run and create GUI applications, under Linux. With WSL you can install a bare-bone Linux distribution, under windows.

This installed distro, does actually lack X11, so in order to run GUI applications from … Read More

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