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Xsun - Solaris server for X Version 11
Xsun [ option ] ...
Xsun is the Solaris server for Version 11 of the X window system
on Solaris hardware. It is normally started by xinit(1)
via openwin(1)
.
In addition to the network connections described in
Xserver(1)
, Xsun provides the following connection:
- Shared Memory
Sun provides a shared memory transport mechanism via the SUN_SME extension.
This extension provides the capability of sending client requests to the
server via shared memory. Shared memory is used for client requests only.
Replies from the server and events are sent via the default transport
mechanism. To enable this transport mechanism, one has to set the DISPLAY
environment variable to :x.y (where x is the display number and y is the
screen number), and the environment variable XSUNTRANSPORT to "shmem".
The size of the segment can be set by setting enviroment variable XSUNSMESIZE.
By default, it is set to "64" which implies that the size of the shared
memory segment is 64K.
In addition to the options described in Xserver(1)
,
Xsun accepts the following command-line switches:
- -dev filename
- This option
specifies the name of the framebuffer device file to be used instead of
the default framebuffer /dev/fb. Multiple instances of this option indicate
multiple screens on the same server. After each -dev option a list of modifiers
changes the behavior of the named device.
- [ left | right | top | bottom ]
- Specify
the position of a given screen in relation to the previous one on the command
line. The default right.
- dpix n
- The dpi in the x direction for this screen
is n. The default is 90.
- dpiy n
- The dpi in the y direction for this screen
is n. The default is 90.
- defclass [ GrayScale | StaticGray | PseudoColor |
- StaticColor | DirectColor | TrueColor ] Use the specified visual as the
default visual. The default is device dependent.
- defdepth n
- A visual of
depth n is the default visual. The default is device dependent.
- grayvis
- Only report GrayScale and/or StaticGray visuals.
The following is an example
of the -dev option that might be used on a system with a cg6 and a bw2:
-dev /dev/cgsix0 defclass GrayScale -dev /dev/bwtwo0 right
The Xsun server also supports the format used by the X11R5 sample X Server.
Multiple screen systems are specified by using the following syntax on
the command line:
-dev <device 1>:<device 2>:...:<device n>
The server uses device 1 as screen 0, device 2 as screen 1, etc., and
the server assumes that screens are ordered left to right in ascending
screen number. This means that the cursor moves off the right side of screen
n and onto the left side of screen n + 1. When this format is used, no
other -dev options are valid.
- - accessX
- This option enables activation of
the slowkey and stickykey functionality of the AccessX extension using
the shift key on the keyboard.
- -ar1 milliseconds
- Specify amount of time in
milliseconds before a pressed key begins to autorepeating. The default
is 500 milliseconds. This option is not available on Solaris x86 or PowerPC.
- -ar2 milliseconds
- specify the interval in milliseconds between autorepeats
of pressed keys. The default is 50 milliseconds. This option is not available
on Solaris x86 or PowerPC.
- -banner
- Display the OpenWindows banner screen
at startup. The banner is displayed by default.
- -dur milliseconds
- Set the
duration of the bell in units of milliseconds. Default is 100.
- -dpsfileops
- Allow the Display PostScript file operators access to the UNIX file system.
- -flipPixels
- Reverse black and white pixel locations in the colormap. This
is not the same as a reverse video option.
- -pit percentage
- Set the percentage
of the maximum pitch available to the hardware. Sun hardware does not support
alternative pitch values.
- -mden denominator
- Set the pointer acceleration
denominator. The acceleration numerator is set with the -a option described
in Xserver(1)
. This permits fractional acceleration such as 3/2 or 1.5. Default
value is 1.
- -nobanner
- Do not display the OpenWindows banner screen at startup.
- -nominexp
- This option is used to disable "minimized exposure", which is
used only by multi-planegroup devices such as gt, cg12 and cg8. "Minimized
Exposure" means that the server will not send expose events to windows
in one planegroup that are exposed by windows in another planegroup. By
default the minimized exposure feature is turned ON.
- -sharedretainedpath
directory_path
- This option is currently supported only for Sun internal
software APIs.
openwin(1)
, X11(7)
, Xserver(1)
, xdm(1)
, xinit(1)
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