[PATCH:app/xinit] Use platform-specific X server names in man pages for cygwin & darwin
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Sat Oct 17 12:15:32 PDT 2009
Jon TURNEY wrote:
> I'm not sure why this sentence mentions the configuration file at all.
>
> Currently this reads:
>
> "It may be convenient to specify server options with startx to change
> on a per-session basis the default color depth, the server’s notion
> of the number of dots-per-inch the display device presents, or take
> advantage of a different server layout, as permitted by the Xorg(1)
> server and specified in the xorg.conf(5) file."
>
> I'm not sure how xorg.conf tells you anything useful about server
> options you can supply via startx?
I think it's trying to say that you can specify multiple ServerLayout sections
in xorg.conf, and specify a startx/xinit/Xorg command line option to specify
which one to use. Do XWin & XQuartz have anything similar or should that
sentence just be reworked to better fit them?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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