[PATCH:xserver 1/3] Xorg.man: move XLOCAL details to X(7) man page instead

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 00:01:20 PDT 2015


Series:

Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at apple.com>

> On Oct 27, 2015, at 19:44, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> These settings affect clients, not server, so belong there, next to
> the information about how to set $DISPLAY.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> ---
> hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man |   55 ++---------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man b/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> index 646a90c..b23db3d 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ byte-streams:
> .I "Local"
> On most platforms, the "Local" connection type is a UNIX-domain socket.
> On some System V platforms, the "local" connection types also include
> -STREAMS pipes, named pipes, and some other mechanisms.
> +STREAMS pipes, named pipes, and some other mechanisms.  See the
> +"LOCAL CONNECTIONS" section of X(__miscmansuffix__) for details.
> .TP 4
> .I TCP/IP
> .B Xorg
> @@ -55,58 +56,6 @@ where
> is the display number.  This connection type can be disabled with the
> .B \-nolisten
> option (see the Xserver(1) man page for details).
> -.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
> -For operating systems that support local connections other than Unix
> -Domain sockets (SVR3 and SVR4), there is a compiled-in list specifying
> -the order in which local connections should be attempted.  This list
> -can be overridden by the
> -.I XLOCAL
> -environment variable described below.  If the display name indicates a
> -best-choice connection should be made (e.g.
> -.BR :0.0 ),
> -each connection mechanism is tried until a connection succeeds or no
> -more mechanisms are available.  Note: for these OSs, the Unix Domain
> -socket connection is treated differently from the other local connection
> -types.  To use it the connection must be made to
> -.BR unix:0.0 .
> -.PP
> -The
> -.I XLOCAL
> -environment variable should contain a list of one more
> -more of the following:
> -.PP
> -.RS 8
> -.nf
> -NAMED
> -PTS
> -SCO
> -ISC
> -.fi
> -.RE
> -.PP
> -which represent SVR4 Named Streams pipe, Old-style USL Streams pipe,
> -SCO XSight Streams pipe, and ISC Streams pipe, respectively.  You can
> -select a single mechanism (e.g.
> -.IR XLOCAL=NAMED ),
> -or an ordered list (e.g. \fIXLOCAL="NAMED:PTS:SCO"\fP).
> -his variable overrides the compiled-in defaults.  For SVR4 it is
> -recommended that
> -.I NAMED
> -be the first preference connection.  The default setting is
> -.IR PTS:NAMED:ISC:SCO .
> -.PP
> -To globally override the compiled-in defaults, you should define (and
> -export if using
> -.B sh
> -or
> -.BR ksh )
> -.I XLOCAL
> -globally.  If you use startx(1) or xinit(1), the definition should be
> -at the top of your
> -.I .xinitrc
> -file.  If you use xdm(1), the definitions should be early on in the
> -.I __projectroot__/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> -script.
> .SH OPTIONS
> .B Xorg
> supports several mechanisms for supplying/obtaining configuration and
> -- 
> 1.7.9.2
> 
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