NAME

       xduplic-copier - type into multiple X windows at once

SYNOPSIS

       xduplic-copier

DESCRIPTION

       xduplic-copier lets you type into multiple X windows at once.

       It has a very basic user interface for selecting which windows to type into.

OPTIONS

       xduplic-copier ignores its command-line arguments.

MODES

       xduplic-copier puts up a small window with some text in it.  It has two modes:

       Idle: "i 0" (red); Typing "T count" (green)
              If  you  type  keystrokes into xduplic-copier, they will be replicated to all the selected windows
              (if there are any).  (You can also type into the selected windows individually in the normal way.)
              count  is  the  number  of  selected windows.  The starting mode is Idle; you should left-click to
              start selecting.

       Selecting: "S count" (white)
              In this mode xduplic-copier has grabbed the mouse pointer and you can indicate which  windows  you
              are going to want to type into.

MOUSE ACTIONS

       Left-click in xduplic-copier
              Switch between typing and selecting modes.

       Right-click in xduplic-copier
              Quit.

       Left-click in another window while selecting
              Select this window.  (Beeps if already selected.)

       Right-click in another window while selecting
              Deselect this window.  (Beeps if not selected.)

       Right-click in root window (ie, desktop background) while selecting
              Deselect all windows.

       Q key while selecting
              Quits.

XTERM AND ALLOW SENDEVENTS

       xduplic-copier  does  its work by generating synthetic events for the selected windows, using XSendEvent.
       Unfortunately the xterm authors think that allowing XSendEvent is a security problem; they are wrong: any
       untrusted  person  can already take over your xterms anyway.  But the xterm authors have configured xterm
       to discard synthetic events by default.

       You can solve this at runtime by bringing up the ctrl-leftbutton menu in  each  xterm,  and  ticking  the
       option "Allow SendEvents".  Or you can set the allowSendEvents in your xterm X resources.

       Neither  of these significantly reduce your security.  Indeed, xterm itself allows these properties to be
       set via the X toolkit system's remote widget property setting arrangements - so it would be possible  for
       xduplic-copier to set this property itself on any xterms it encountered.  Unfortunately doing so would be
       a lot of tedious programming.

BUGS

       If one of the windows you have selected is closed, and you try typing, xduplic-copier will crash  due  to
       an  unhandled  X11 error.  If you notice that you have got into this state, you cannot retain your set of
       selected windows because there is no way to click on the now-destroyed window to deselect  it.   You  can
       keep  xduplic-copier  from  crashing  by  right-clicking  on  the  background in selecting mode, and then
       reselecting all your windows, which may be marginally more convenient than restarting it.

       The UI is perhaps excessively sparse.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

       Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote xduplic-copier some time in 2002, and updated  it  in
       2013. The manpage is from 2013.

       xduplic-copier is govered by the GNU GPL, v3 or later.