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author | Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2022-08-31 08:25:15 +0000 |
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committer | Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2022-08-31 08:25:15 +0000 |
commit | 8de3f5de2d66cc7aaf6a4fb228ce1834a281098c (patch) | |
tree | 900a834201a22756642ecd844ffbd882add5fb24 /doc/xorg-docs/man | |
parent | 98bfa43f18f6676c818a71619e34493868413eaa (diff) |
Update xorg-docs to version 1.7.2
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/xorg-docs/man/Makefile.in | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/xorg-docs/man/X.man | 139 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/xorg-docs/man/XOrgFoundation.man | 13 |
3 files changed, 126 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/doc/xorg-docs/man/Makefile.in b/doc/xorg-docs/man/Makefile.in index 8fdb65b1a..22f5c051a 100644 --- a/doc/xorg-docs/man/Makefile.in +++ b/doc/xorg-docs/man/Makefile.in @@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ pdfdir = @pdfdir@ prefix = @prefix@ program_transform_name = @program_transform_name@ psdir = @psdir@ +runstatedir = @runstatedir@ sbindir = @sbindir@ sharedstatedir = @sharedstatedir@ srcdir = @srcdir@ diff --git a/doc/xorg-docs/man/X.man b/doc/xorg-docs/man/X.man index 8d2d01ea4..b9e08f677 100644 --- a/doc/xorg-docs/man/X.man +++ b/doc/xorg-docs/man/X.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" t +'\" t .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1994, 2004 The Open Group .\" Copyright \(co 2000 The XFree86 Project, Inc. @@ -76,39 +76,53 @@ the \fIXlib - C Language X Interface\fP manual, the \fIX Window System Protocol\fP specification, the \fIX Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface\fP manual, and various toolkit documents. +.\" Use .UR macro from groff's man(7) if available, otherwise just +.\" display URL as plain text for other processors. +.if !d UR \{ +.de UR +.RI < \\$1 > +.. +.de UE +.RI \\$1 +.. \} +.\" +Those manuals, specifications, & documents may be found in +__datadir__/doc or on the X.Org Foundation website at +.UR "https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/" +.UE . .PP The number of programs that use \fIX\fP is quite large. -Programs provided in the core X.Org Foundation distribution include: +Sample programs provided by the X.Org Foundation include: a terminal emulator, \fIxterm\fP; a window manager, \fItwm\fP; +a compositing manager, \fIxcompmgr\fP; a display manager, \fIxdm\fP; a console redirect program, \fIxconsole\fP; -a bitmap editor, \fIbitmap\fP; +utilities for managing input and output devices, \fIxinput\fP and \fIxrandr\fP; resource listing/manipulation tools, \fIappres\fP, \fIeditres\fP; access control programs, \fIxauth\fP, \fIxhost\fP, and \fIiceauth\fP; -user preference setting programs, \fIxrdb\fP, \fIxcmsdb\fP, +user preference setting programs, \fItransset\fP, \fIxrdb\fP, \fIxcmsdb\fP, \fIxset\fP, \fIxsetroot\fP, \fIxstdcmap\fP, and \fIxmodmap\fP; clocks, \fIxclock\fP and \fIoclock\fP; -a font displayer, \fIxfd\fP; -utilities for listing information about fonts, windows, and displays, -\fIxlsfonts\fP, \fIxwininfo\fP, \fIxlsclients\fP, -\fIxdpyinfo\fP, \fIxlsatoms\fP, and \fIxprop\fP; +font display utilities, \fIxfd\fP and \fIxfontsel\fP; +utilities for listing information about displays, extensions, and resources, +\fIxdpyinfo\fP, \fIxdriinfo\fP, \fIxvinfo\fP, \fIxwininfo\fP, \fIxlsclients\fP, +\fIxprop\fP, \fIxlsatoms\fP, \fIxlsclients\fP, and \fIxlsfonts\fP; screen image manipulation utilities, \fIxwd\fP, \fIxwud\fP, and \fIxmag\fP; a performance measurement utility, \fIx11perf\fP; a font compiler, \fIbdftopcf\fP; -a font server and related utilities, \fIxfs\fP, \fIfsinfo\fP, \fIfslsfonts\fP, \fIfstobdf\fP; +a font server and related utilities, \fIxfs\fP, \fIxfsinfo\fP, \fIfslsfonts\fP, \fIfstobdf\fP; a display server and related utilities, \fIXserver\fP, \fIrgb\fP, \fImkfontdir\fP; a clipboard manager, \fIxclipboard\fP; keyboard description compiler and related utilities, \fIxkbcomp\fP, \fIsetxkbmap\fP \fIxkbprint\fP, \fIxkbbell\fP, \fIxkbevd\fP, \fIxkbvleds\fP, and \fIxkbwatch\fP; a utility to terminate clients, \fIxkill\fP; -a firewall security proxy, \fIxfwp\fP; and a utility to cause part or all of the screen to be redrawn, \fIxrefresh\fP. .PP Many other utilities, window managers, games, toolkits, etc. are included -as user-contributed software in the X.Org Foundation distribution, or are +as packages in many operating system distributions, or are available on the Internet. -See your site administrator for details. +See your site administrator or distro package manager for details. .SH "STARTING UP" .PP There are two main ways of getting the X server and an initial set of @@ -151,15 +165,34 @@ form: .RS \fIhostname:displaynumber.screennumber\fP .RE +or +.RS +\fIprotocol/hostname:displaynumber.screennumber\fP +.RE .sp This information is used by the application to determine how it should connect to the server and which screen it should use by default (on displays with multiple monitors): .TP 8 +.I protocol +The \fIprotocol\fP specifies the protocol to use for communication. +Exactly which protocols are supported is platform dependent, but most +commonly supported ones are: +.TS +l l. +tcp TCP over IPv4 or IPv6 +inet TCP over IPv4 only +inet6 TCP over IPv6 only +unix UNIX Domain Sockets (same host only) +local Platform preferred local connection method +.TE +If the protocol is not specified, Xlib uses whatever it believes is the +most efficient transport. +.TP 8 .I hostname The \fIhostname\fP specifies the name of the machine to which the display is -physically connected. If the hostname is not given, the most efficient way of -communicating to a server on the same machine will be used. +physically connected. If the hostname is not given, a connection to a server +on the same machine will be used. .TP 8 .I displaynumber The phrase "display" is usually used to refer to a collection of monitors that @@ -227,6 +260,55 @@ addresses, and IPv6 addresses are all allowed. For example: \fIx.org:0\fP, \fIexpo:0\fP, \fI[::1]:0\fP, \fI198.112.45.11:0\fP, \fIbigmachine:1\fP, and \fIhydra:0.1\fP. .PP +.SH "LOCAL CONNECTIONS" +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. +.PP +The +.I XLOCAL +environment variable should contain a list of one more +more of the following: +.PP +.RS 8 +.nf +NAMED +PTS +SCO +UNIX +.fi +.RE +.PP +which represent SVR4 Named Streams pipe, Old-style USL Streams pipe, +SCO XSight Streams pipe, and Unix domain sockets, respectively. You can +select a single mechanism (e.g. +.IR XLOCAL=NAMED ), +or an ordered list (e.g. \fIXLOCAL="NAMED:PTS:SCO"\fP). +This variable overrides the compiled-in defaults. For SVR4 it is +recommended that +.I NAMED +be the first preference connection. The default setting is +platform-dependent. +.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 "ACCESS CONTROL" An X server can use several types of access control. Mechanisms provided in Release 7 are: @@ -357,12 +439,12 @@ to explicitly draw the window's region on the screen with the pointer, for example). .PP Since window managers are regular (albeit complex) client programs, -a variety of different user interfaces can be built. The X.Org Foundation distribution -comes with a window manager named \fItwm\fP which supports overlapping windows, +a variety of different user interfaces can be built. The X.Org Foundation +provides a window manager named \fItwm\fP which supports overlapping windows, popup menus, point-and-click or click-to-type input models, title bars, nice icons (and an icon manager for those who don't like separate icon windows). .PP -See the user-contributed software in the X.Org Foundation distribution for other +See your distro package manager for other popular window managers. .SH "FONT NAMES" Collections of characters for displaying text and symbols in X are known as @@ -1199,16 +1281,15 @@ the appropriate instance name can be placed before the asterisk: .BR bdftopcf (__appmansuffix__), .BR bitmap (__appmansuffix__), .BR editres (__appmansuffix__), -.BR fsinfo (__appmansuffix__), .BR fslsfonts (__appmansuffix__), .BR fstobdf (__appmansuffix__), .BR iceauth (__appmansuffix__), -.BR imake (__appmansuffix__), -.BR makedepend (__appmansuffix__), .BR mkfontdir (__appmansuffix__), +.BR mkfontscale (__appmansuffix__), .BR oclock (__appmansuffix__), .BR resize (__appmansuffix__), .BR smproxy (__appmansuffix__), +.BR transset (__appmansuffix__), .BR twm (__appmansuffix__), .BR x11perf (__appmansuffix__), .BR x11perfcomp (__appmansuffix__), @@ -1216,12 +1297,16 @@ the appropriate instance name can be placed before the asterisk: .BR xclipboard (__appmansuffix__), .BR xclock (__appmansuffix__), .BR xcmsdb (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xcompmgr (__appmansuffix__), .BR xconsole (__appmansuffix__), .BR xdm (__appmansuffix__), .BR xdpyinfo (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xdriinfo (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xev (__appmansuffix__), .BR xfd (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xfontsel (__appmansuffix__), .BR xfs (__appmansuffix__), -.BR xfwp (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xfsinfo (__appmansuffix__), .BR xhost (__appmansuffix__), .BR xinit (__appmansuffix__), .BR xkbbell (__appmansuffix__), @@ -1238,14 +1323,17 @@ the appropriate instance name can be placed before the asterisk: .BR xmag (__appmansuffix__), .BR xmodmap (__appmansuffix__), .BR xprop (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xrandr (__appmansuffix__), .BR xrdb (__appmansuffix__), .BR xrefresh (__appmansuffix__), -.BR xrx (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xrestop (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xscope (__appmansuffix__), .BR xset (__appmansuffix__), .BR xsetroot (__appmansuffix__), .BR xsm (__appmansuffix__), .BR xstdcmap (__appmansuffix__), .BR xterm (__appmansuffix__), +.BR xvinfo (__appmansuffix__), .BR xwd (__appmansuffix__), .BR xwininfo (__appmansuffix__), .BR xwud (__appmansuffix__). @@ -1255,10 +1343,17 @@ the appropriate instance name can be placed before the asterisk: .BR Xephyr (__appmansuffix__), .BR Xnest (__appmansuffix__), .BR Xvfb (__appmansuffix__), +.PP .\" specifications .I "Xlib \- C Language X Interface\fR,\fP" and .I "X Toolkit Intrinsics \- C Language Interface" +.PP +Those specifications, and additional specifications & documentation for the +X Window System may also be found in __datadir__/doc or on the X.Org Foundation +website at +.UR "http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/" +.UE . .SH TRADEMARKS .PP X Window System is a trademark of The Open Group. diff --git a/doc/xorg-docs/man/XOrgFoundation.man b/doc/xorg-docs/man/XOrgFoundation.man index 0ed0779d2..1ecf3fa2d 100644 --- a/doc/xorg-docs/man/XOrgFoundation.man +++ b/doc/xorg-docs/man/XOrgFoundation.man @@ -27,14 +27,15 @@ XOrgFoundation \- X.Org Foundation information Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org Foundation. .SH DESCRIPTION -The X.Org Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity +The X.Org Foundation is a member project of Software in the Public Interest +(SPI), an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corporation. It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the X.Org Group at The Open Group. The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is to foster the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards. Membership in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org Foundation -hosts a public git repository of the source code on freedesktop.org. +hosts public git repositories of the source code on freedesktop.org. .PP The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to @@ -48,10 +49,12 @@ to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the Open Software Foundation). .PP .SH "ADDRESSES" -The X.Org Foundation's web site is http://www.x.org/ +The X.Org Foundation's web site is https://www.x.org/ +.SH "ADDRESSES" +SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/ .PP The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/ .PP -Information about the X.Org Foundation git repository is on the -X.Org web site at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git +The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are at +https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg .fi |