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authorJon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2009-10-26 13:55:35 +0000
committerAlan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>2018-03-09 23:34:25 -0800
commitaac8e17d28665dd35a73ee188c007f0b0f9cd9fe (patch)
tree35afd62c24a21d0d79742a45d36493ebe0de8f1c
parent2df7937c6d57a4f44288d13fc50218fe088c4185 (diff)
Make text about supplying X server arguments via startx more generic
Make text about supplying X server arguments via startx more generic, rather than assuming the started server will be Xorg, and hence will take Xorg's arguments. Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--man/startx.man12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/startx.man b/man/startx.man
index 4728a25..72e5e17 100644
--- a/man/startx.man
+++ b/man/startx.man
@@ -56,15 +56,9 @@ command are used to start a client in the same manner as
The special argument
.RB '--'
marks the end of client arguments and the beginning of server options.
-It may be convenient to specify server options with startx to change on a
-per-session basis the
-default color depth, the server's notion of the number of dots-per-inch the
-display device presents, or take advantage of a different server layout, as
-permitted by the
-.BR __XSERVERNAME__ (__appmansuffix__)
-server and specified in the
-.BR __XCONFIGFILEMAN__
-configuration. Some examples of specifying server arguments follow; consult
+It may be convenient to specify server options with startx to change them on a
+per-session basis.
+Some examples of specifying server arguments follow; consult
the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are legal.
.RS
.PP