We, the Tecmint Team is consistent in producing high quality articles of all kinds in Linux and Open-source domain. We have been working hard from the first day of our establishment, in order to bring knowledgeable and relevant content to our beloved readers. We have produced a lot of shell based programs ranging from funny commands to the serious commands. A few of which are:
- 20 Funny Linux Commands
- 51 Lesser Known Useful Linux Commands
- 60 Linux Commands – A Guide from Newbies to Administrator
8 X Based Linux Commands
Here in this article we will be providing a few of X-based commands, which is generally available in most of the standard distributions of today, and if in case you find the below X-based commands, not installed in your box, you can always apt or yum the required packages. Here all the below listed commands are tested on Debian.
1. xeyes Command
A Graphical eyes, which follows the mouse movement. It seems much of a funny command, than of any useful use. Being funny is as much useful, is another aspect. Run the ‘xeyes‘ in the terminal and see the moving mouse pointer motion.
xeyes command
2. xfd Command
The ‘xfd‘ display all the characters in an X font. xfd utility creates a window containing the name of the font being displayed.
xfd command
3. xload Command
The ‘xload‘ outputs system load average display for the X server. It is a fantastic tool to check real time average system load.
xload command
4. xman Command
Most of us are aware of man aka manual pages and use them frequently whenever we want the reference of a command or application, its usages, etc. But Very few people know that man page has a ‘X‘ version called xman.
xman command
5. xsm Command
The ‘xsm‘ stands for ‘X Session Manager‘ it’s a session manager. A session is a group of applications each of which refers to a particular state.
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