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diff --git a/man/startx.man b/man/startx.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0405be0 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/startx.man @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright 1993, 1998 The Open Group +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its +.\" documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that +.\" the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting +.\" documentation. +.\" +.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included +.\" in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS +.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR +.\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, +.\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR +.\" OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall +.\" not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or +.\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization +.\" from The Open Group. +.\" +.\" +.TH STARTX __appmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ +.SH NAME +startx \- initialize an X session +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B startx +[ [ +.I client +] +.I options +\&\.\|.\|. ] [ +.B \-\^\- +[ +.I server +] [ +.I display +] +.I options +\&.\|.\|. ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBstartx\fP script is a front end to +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__) +that provides a +somewhat nicer user interface for running a single session of the X +Window System. It is often run with no arguments. +.PP +Arguments immediately following the +.I startx +command are used to start a client in the same manner as +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__). +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 +the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are legal. +.RS +.PP +startx -- -depth 16 +.PP +startx -- -dpi 100 +.PP +startx -- -layout Multihead +.RE +.if '__SCOMAN__'' .ig +.PP +To determine the client to run, +.B startx +looks for the following files, in order: +.RS +.PP +.I $(HOME)/.startxrc +.PP +.I __libdir__/sys.startxrc +.PP +.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc +.PP +.I __xinitdir__/xinitrc +.RE +.PP +.. +.if !'x.__SCOMAN__'x.' .ig +.PP +To determine the client to run, +.B startx +first looks for a file called +.I .xinitrc +in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it uses +the file +.I xinitrc +in the +.I xinit +library directory. +.. +If command line client options are given, they override this +behavior and revert to the +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__) +behavior. +To determine the server to run, +.B startx +first looks for a file called +.I .xserverrc +in the user's home directory. If that is not found, it uses +the file +.I xserverrc +in the +.I xinit +library directory. +If command line server options are given, they override this +behavior and revert to the +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__) +behavior. Users rarely need to provide a +.I .xserverrc +file. +See the +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__) +manual page for more details on the arguments. +.PP +The system-wide +.I xinitrc +and +.I xserverrc +files are found in the +.I __xinitdir__ +directory. +.PP +The +.I .xinitrc +is typically a shell script which starts many clients according to the +user's preference. When this shell script exits, +.B startx +kills the server and performs any other session shutdown needed. +Most of the clients started by +.I .xinitrc +should be run in the background. The last client should run in the +foreground; when it exits, the session will exit. People often choose +a session manager, window manager, or \fIxterm\fP as the ''magic'' client. +.SH EXAMPLE +.PP +Below is a sample \fI\.xinitrc\fP that starts several applications and +leaves the window manager running as the ''last'' application. Assuming that +the window manager has been configured properly, the user +then chooses the ''Exit'' menu item to shut down X. +.sp +.in +4 +.nf +xrdb \-load $HOME/.Xresources +xsetroot \-solid gray & +xbiff \-geometry \-430+5 & +oclock \-geometry 75x75\-0\-0 & +xload \-geometry \-80\-0 & +xterm \-geometry +0+60 \-ls & +xterm \-geometry +0\-100 & +xconsole \-geometry \-0+0 \-fn 5x7 & +exec twm +.fi +.in -4 +.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" +.TP 25 +DISPLAY +This variable gets set to the name of the display to which clients should +connect. Note that this gets +.IR set , +not read. +.TP 25 +XAUTHORITY +This variable, if not already defined, gets set to +.IR $(HOME)/.Xauthority . +This is to prevent the X server, if not given the +.I \-auth +argument, from automatically setting up insecure host-based authentication +for the local host. See the +.BR Xserver (__appmansuffix__) +and +.IR Xsecurity (__miscmansuffix__) +manual pages for more information on X client/server authentication. +.SH FILES +.if '__SCOMAN__'' .ig +.TP 25 +.I $(HOME)/.startxrc +Client to run. Typically a shell script which runs many programs in +the background. +.TP 25 +.I __libdir__/sys.startxrc +Client to use if the user has no +.I .startxrc +file. +.. +.TP 25 +.I $(HOME)/.xinitrc +Client to run. Typically a shell script which runs many programs in +the background. +.TP 25 +.I $(HOME)/.xserverrc +Server to run. The default is +.IR X . +.TP 25 +.I __xinitdir__/xinitrc +Client to run if the user has no +.I .xinitrc +file. +.TP 25 +.I __xinitdir__/xserverrc +Server to run if the user has no +.I .xserverrc +file. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR xinit (__appmansuffix__), +.BR X (__miscmansuffix__), +.BR Xserver (__appmansuffix__), +.BR __XSERVERNAME__ (__appmansuffix__), +.BR __XCONFIGFILEMAN__ |