xtrace, an X11 protocol tracing package that is already available in Debian is now also available in updates-testing for F20 and Rawhide. xtrace-1.3.1-5.fc20 newpackage testing 2014-03-30 This is used by running a program under xtrace, eg: xtrace xterm The xtrace program then acts as a dummy/proxy X server to the program it runs, setting DISPLAY appropriately. It can also be run as a standalone proxy for processes to connect to: xtrace -D :9 The output appears on stderr or can be dumped into a file. It looks like: 000:<:01c7: 20: Request(77): ImageText16 drawable=0x07a0002d gc=0x07a0002c x=2 y=13 string=0x2000; 000:<:01c8: 32: Request(65): PolyLine coordinate-mode=Previous(0x01) drawable=0x07a0002d gc=0x07a00032 points={x=2 y=2},{x=5 y=0},{x=0 y=12},{x=-5 y=0},{x=0 y=-12}; 000:>:01c8: Event PropertyNotify(28) window=0x07a00022 atom=0x14d(unrecognized atom) time=0x3dfa5e3f state=NewValue(0x00) 000:>:01c8: Event PropertyNotify(28) window=0x07a00022 atom=0x1c7(unrecognized atom) time=0x3dfa5e3f state=NewValue(0x00) 000:>:01c8: Event PropertyNotify(28) window=0x07a00022 atom=0x1cf(unrecognized atom) time=0x3dfa5e40 state=NewValue(0x00) David -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct