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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.\" $XdotOrg: Xvfb.man,v 1.4 2001/02/09 02:04:45 xorgcvs Exp $
.\" $Xorg: Xvfb.man,v 1.4 2001/02/09 02:04:45 xorgcvs Exp $
.\" Copyright 1993, 1998 The Open Group
.\"
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
.\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
.\" from The Open Group.
.\"
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/vfb/Xvfb.man,v 1.11 2004/03/05 03:20:48 dawes Exp $
+.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/vfb/Xvfb.man,v 1.9 2001/12/14 19:59:45 dawes Exp $
.\"
.TH XVFB 1 __xorgversion__
.SH NAME
@@ -58,32 +59,30 @@ 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 \fIW\fPx\fIH\fPx\fID\fP\fR[\fP@\fIx\fP,\fIy\fP\fR]\fP"
+.B "\-screen \fIscreennum\fP \fIWxHxD\fP"
This option creates screen \fIscreennum\fP and sets its width, height,
-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 .
+and depth to W, H, and D respectively. By default, only screen 0 exists
+and has the dimensions 1280x1024x8.
.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().