Check out all the colors on you X window system.

2012-02-24 1 min read Fedora

If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel.

[xcolorsel][1]
xcolorsel

You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this.

Continue reading

wmctrl – window control manager

2010-06-16 0 min read Fedora Linux
\"Blue
Image via Wikipedia

What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl?

wmctrl  is  a  command that can be used to interact with an X Window manager that is compatible with the EWMH/NetWM specification.  wmctrl can query the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window manager for information, and it can request that certain window management actions be taken.

Continue reading