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authorThomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>2020-06-21 11:37:21 -0400
committerThomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>2020-06-21 11:37:21 -0400
commita754e9f5c5735787a8e22839824a33546a9c43ef (patch)
treeb64fe5d6c4498061f004929c56c3cd1760468b44 /man
parenta4b14ca34b68f5a6a496aec53dafd4ee06222f83 (diff)
mention newer behavior of -q/-v options
Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ named \fI.twmrc.num\fP (where \fInum\fP is a screen number) or \fI.twmrc\fP.
.B \-quiet
Tells \fItwm\fP that it should not print error messages when
it receives unexpected X Error events.
+.IP
+Besides X Error events, \fItwm\fP also reports its own warnings.
+The \fB\-quiet\fP option suppresses those.
.TP 8
.B \-restore \fIfilename\fP
When \fItwm\fP's session is stopped, it attempts to save the current
@@ -151,6 +154,9 @@ Tells \fItwm\fP that it should print error messages whenever
it receives an unexpected X Error event.
This can be useful when debugging
applications but can be distracting in regular use.
+.IP
+The \fB\-verbose\fP and \fB\-quiet\fP options increment and decrement
+the message level, cancelling each other.
.TP 8
.B \-V
Tell \fItwm\fP to print its version to the standard output, and exit.