Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools

I have xconsole running now, I have cron jobs that echo out stats to it every so often. It is a very nice and lite conky replacement.

And a few of these I still use, like xv, xload, xclock, xterm, xless, xmessage and xmahjongg. A few I never heard of.

It is too bad all these cool little tools will be gone for Linux once Wayland becomes a thing.

There were so many calculators in the list, I'm surprised there was no mention of NONPAREIL:

https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/

I use it for the HP-41CX emulation, but it emulates a lot of HP calculators from that era...

Programs like these may seem simple today but they're often very fast, efficient and to the point.

I used xwpe for a few years in the 90s.

xev is a cool tool for analyzing input events. A modern alternative is something like KWin Debug Console > Input Events.