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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2015-10-27 19:06:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2015-10-29 18:35:47 -0700 |
| commit | 9e48239436c256ff695cefea1433cdb2868667a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 9894495c007123fc1d7941b9d5b354bbada153e2 | |
| parent | b0348bd9f9c79b87c93e2d71dba674ebcb31d8f7 (diff) | |
X.man: document protocol/ syntax in display string
See http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Opening_the_Display
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@apple.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/X.man | 25 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" t +'\" t .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1994, 2004 The Open Group .\" Copyright \(co 2000 The XFree86 Project, Inc. @@ -165,15 +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 |