---
name: "xt"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xt"
version: "0.8.14-2.1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xtraceroute"
---

# xt(1)

graphical (X11) traceroute

Part of [xtraceroute(1)](/xtraceroute/1.md).

## NAME

xtraceroute - graphical (X11) traceroute

## SYNOPSIS

**xtraceroute** *\[options\] hostname ...*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **xtraceroute**, command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**xtraceroute** is a graphical version of the traceroute program, which traces the route your IP packets travel to their destination.

On the display:

\* Green dots have good location information,

\* Yellow ones has been guessed from the sites' suffix,

\* Red ones are unknown.

You can select dots by clicking on them both on the globe and in the list.

## ARGUMENTS

hostnames are the names (or IP addresses) of the hosts you are interested in.

## OPTIONS

The program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').

- **--version**

  Show version number

- **-h, --help**

  Display a brief help text.

- **-T, --texture texture-name.tiff**

  Use a custom texture (map). It must be a TIFF file. There are a few really good textures on http://www.radcyberzine.com/xglobe/ (Meant for use with Xglobe, but if you convert them to TIFF, they'll work fine.)

- **--LOD number**

  Set the level-of-detail for the sphere. (The default is 3, 0-4 is realistic values.)

- **--stdio**

  Makes the program read data from stdin instead of calling  [**traceroute**(8)](/traceroute/8.md) (Mainly useful for debugging)

## CAVEATS

**xtraceroute tries hard to guess the location of machines, but it is just** software, it doesn't know everything.

## FILES

- */etc/xtraceroute/site\_hosts.cache*

  System-wide hosts file

- */etc/xtraceroute/site\_networks.cache*

  System-wide networks file

The two files above are filled in by hand, following the model of */usr/share/lib/xtraceroute* \*.cache files.

- *$HOME/.xt/user\_hosts.cache*

  Your personal hosts file

- *$HOME/.xt/user\_networks.cache*

  Your personal networks file

- *$HOME/.xt/user\_generic.cache*

  Your personal base of regular expressions

These three personal files are typically filled in via the  **Database** menu.

## SEE ALSO

More information is in /usr/share/doc/xtraceroute.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer \<bortzmeyer@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).