Ta. It makes sense.. You can find the fork here [1]. --dformat is new arg for changing default and display format, so you don`t need to change it for each property (i`m using it for strings) Rene [1] <a href="https://github.com/gadefox/xprop">https://github.com/gadefox/xprop</a> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On 10:19, Wed, 26 Jan 2022 Thomas Dickey <<a href="mailto:dickey@his.com">dickey@his.com</a> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 01:56:55PM +0100, René wrote: > I redeveloped `xprop.., so it fits my expectations: > - the tool does not allocate 1MB every time > - no limit for buffer > - refacturing the code > - colorized output > --raw param for scripts > - bug fixing > - $@ tag for pro name > $# tag for prop type > $^^ tag for separator > - no need to use `sed for paring the output e.g. I just use --dformat (def. > format)=$8s:$0 --raw for getting string prop. or --dformat=8s:$^:^$0+ for > the list where is "--dformat" defined? (which tool) > - double --args with = > - src is split to more files > - no exit fn call > - memory releasing at the end > > please note it's not small patch so I don't know how to upload the files to > git. who is managing the src code let me know updates are done by forking the git repo, e.g., <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop</a> and submitting pull-requests. Several small pull requests would probably get more response than a large one. -- Thomas E. Dickey <<a href="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dickey@invisible-island.net</a>> <a href="https://invisible-island.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invisible-island.net</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net</a> </blockquote></div>