NAME

wew — window event watcher

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

wew is a daemon that prints X events to stdout in the form:

event wid [args]

See section EVENT VALUES for the possible values of event.

-l

List event mask values

-m mask

Set new windows event mask to mask Multiple events are registered by performing a bitwise OR of their values. (defaults to STRUCTURE_NOTIFY|ENTER_NOTIFY|FOCUS_CHANGE). The events registered on the root window cannot be modified.

EVENT VALUES

Events will be reported according to these names:

• CREATE
• DESTROY
• BUTTON_PRESS
• BUTTON_RELEASE
• MOTION
• ENTER
• LEAVE
• CONFIGURE
• KEY_PRESS
• FOCUS_IN
• FOCUS_OUT
• KEYMAP
• EXPOSE
• GRAPHICS_EXPOSURE
• NO_EXPOSURE
• VISIBILITY
• UNMAP
• MAP
• MAP_REQUEST
• REPARENT
• CONFIGURE_REQUEST
• GRAVITY
• RESIZE_REQUEST
• CIRCULATE
• PROPERTY
• SELECTION_CLEAR
• SELECTION_REQUEST
• SELECTION
• COLORMAP
• CLIENT_MESSAGE
• MAPPING

ENVIRONMENT

wew acts on the X display specified by the DISPLAY variable.