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I'm very curious what necessitates using glxgears daily.

• jleahy 5y ago
  Same for xchm and xev.
  • vermaden 5y ago
    > xchm Some materials (like old HP-UX training or documentation) is available as CHM files. You can convert them to something else but it the looks like sh*t ... this using xchm(1) helps here. Yes, nowadays it also does not happen that often. Besides xchm(1) does not look that bad: - https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers/2009/xchm-another-file-open.jpg https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers/2009/xchm-another... > xev I use that to test what keys what codes have. For example with ThinkPad W520 the keys to the left and right of the ARROW keys are 'NEXT' and 'PREV' - I always map them to Page Up and Page Down keys with ~/.xmodmaprc file: ! PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN keycode 167 = Next NoSymbol Next keycode 166 = Prior NoSymbol Prior ... and I use xev(1) in that process first to check what codes are before xmodmap(1) does the job and second time when the new xmodmap(1) config is loaded. Its not daily but I also do not use nc(1) or traceroute(1) or dig(1) daily but I of course use these tools when needed. Hope that helps.
• watersb 5y ago
  Um, everyone uses glxgears daily. Right? It's the desktop background. The X root Window. If you finish all your work, all your windows closed, you get to see them gears!
• vermaden 5y ago
  Well, maybe not daily but everytime I configure graphics to see how hardware acceleration is doing :)