PATCH document -background none option
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Oct 11 17:40:07 PDT 2011
On 10/ 7/11 05:41 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 6 October 2011 23:39, Alan Coopersmith<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 10/ 6/11 07:54 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>>
>>> this patch documents the option introduced in commit 8976e97.
>>
>>> +++ b/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
>>
>> Since the option is in the core server argument processing (os/utils.c,
>> not under hw/xfree86/common), it should probably go in man/Xserver.man
>> which is referenced for common args from the
>> Xorg/Xwin/Xvfb/Xnest/Xephyr/etc.
>> man pages.
>
> This updated patch puts the option in the common man page.
Thanks. If you don't mind a little grammar nitpicking, a couple suggestions:
> +.BI \-background " none"
> +If the driver supports it it will be asked to not clear the background on X startup.
Having "it" twice in a row, referring to different things is a bit awkward.
Perhaps:
Asks the driver not to clear the background on startup, if the driver supports
that.
> +May be useful for smooth transition with eg. fbdev driver.
> +For security reasons this is not the default. The screen content might show previous user session.
I'd change that to:
For security reasons this is not the default, as the screen contents
might show a previous user session.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
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