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Asked: 2026-05-13T19:50:45+00:00

I want to send a keystroke to a GLUT program on X11, but I

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I want to send a keystroke to a GLUT program on X11, but I can’t find there’s an X11 client attached to the GLUT program.

I do this, using the most excellent demo program for the chipmunk 2d physics package:

xlsclients -a|sort >aa
chipmunk_demos  (in another window)
xlsclients -a|sort >bb
diff aa bb

and there’s no difference.

My eventual hope is that I can control the GLUT program by sending key events with the equivalent of: 

xdotool key --window 0x4000002 a

So my questions:

  1. how can I remote control a GLUT program running on linux/X11?
  2. Is there a way to get an X11 window id for a GLUT program?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Install xtrace, then:

    In Terminal 1:

    xtrace -d :0 -D :8 | grep CreateWindow

    In Terminal 2:

    DISPLAY=:8 chipmunk_demos

    You should get a line with:

    … CreateWindow depth=0x18 window=0x04a00002 …

    Update: xdotool actually contains powerful search functionality, which recent versions make even easier to use. It doesn’t make sense to use xtrace like this, just use xdotool search instead

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