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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2015-10-27 19:27:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2015-10-29 18:35:53 -0700 |
| commit | 299e213f14d8d1586eb5d47d974c4fcffc807679 (patch) | |
| tree | b65208ed490ccf001397909e26cc8979f54fc9fc | |
| parent | 9e48239436c256ff695cefea1433cdb2868667a9 (diff) | |
X.man: move XLOCAL documentation from Xorg(1) man page
These settings affect clients, not server, so belong here, next to
the information about how to set $DISPLAY.
Also updated to drop ISC and correct description of Unix domain sockets.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@apple.com>
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@@ -260,6 +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: |