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authorEgbert Eich <eich@suse.de>2004-03-14 08:34:49 +0000
committerEgbert Eich <eich@suse.de>2004-03-14 08:34:49 +0000
commitdae90c3af98edd5e95289abd930b3872c996c503 (patch)
tree73da96153db70cfccc9f27428a0eae235574e011 /hw/vfb/Xvfb.man.pre
parent4e996f9d76f51e9b1e33bef610bb9c2a746c8b9c (diff)
Importing vendor version xf86-4_4_99_1 on Sun Mar 14 00:26:39 PST 2004xf86-4_4_99_1
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+++ b/hw/vfb/Xvfb.man.pre
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
.\" from The Open Group.
.\"
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/vfb/Xvfb.man,v 1.9 2001/12/14 19:59:45 dawes Exp $
+.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/vfb/Xvfb.man,v 1.11 2004/03/05 03:20:48 dawes Exp $
.\"
.TH XVFB 1 __xorgversion__
.SH NAME
@@ -58,30 +58,32 @@ To build \fIXvfb\fP, put the following in your host.def and remake.
In addition to the normal server options described in the \fIXserver(1)\fP
manual page, \fIXvfb\fP accepts the following command line switches:
.TP 4
-.B "\-screen \fIscreennum\fP \fIWxHxD\fP"
+.B "\-screen \fIscreennum\fP \fIW\fPx\fIH\fPx\fID\fP\fR[\fP@\fIx\fP,\fIy\fP\fR]\fP"
This option creates screen \fIscreennum\fP and sets its width, height,
-and depth to W, H, and D respectively. By default, only screen 0 exists
-and has the dimensions 1280x1024x8.
+and depth to W, H, and D respectively, and optionally the screen origin
+(for Xinerama purposes) to (x,y). By default, only screen 0 exists and
+has the dimensions 1280x1024x8. If a screen origin is not specified
+when using Xinerama, the default is for screen
+.I N
+to be positioned to the right of screen
+.IR N\-1 .
.TP 4
.B "\-pixdepths \fIlist-of-depths\fP"
This option specifies a list of pixmap depths that the server should
support in addition to the depths implied by the supported screens.
-\fIlist-of-depths\fP is a space-separated list of integers that can
-have values from 1 to 32.
+\fIlist-of-depths\fP is a space-separated list of integers that can have
+values from 1 to 32.
.TP 4
.B "\-fbdir \fIframebuffer-directory\fP"
This option specifies the directory in which the memory mapped files
-containing the framebuffer memory should be created.
-See FILES.
-This option only exists on machines that have the mmap and msync system
-calls.
+containing the framebuffer memory should be created. See FILES. This
+option only exists on machines that have the mmap and msync system calls.
.TP 4
.B "\-shmem"
-This option specifies that the framebuffer should be put in shared memory.
-The shared memory ID for each screen will be printed by the server.
-The shared memory is in xwd format.
-This option only exists on machines that support the System V shared memory
-interface.
+This option specifies that the framebuffer should be put in shared
+memory. The shared memory ID for each screen will be printed by the
+server. The shared memory is in xwd format. This option only exists
+on machines that support the System V shared memory interface.
.PP
If neither \fB\-shmem\fP nor \fB\-fbdir\fP is specified,
the framebuffer memory will be allocated with malloc().