Windows Manager

[Randall R Schulz]

Martin,

When I need to know about command-line options or environment variables 
that are not documented or for commands for which documentation is not 
available or at hand, I do something like this:

% strings /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe |egrep -e "-rootless"
-rootless
         EXPERIMENTAL: Run the server in pseudo-rootless mode.
-rootless

Here it appears both the strings from the argument processing code and the 
usage message are found. This, then, suggests that there is a help message 
available. This command:

% strings /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe |egrep -e "^-"

produces 123 lines, including this one:

-help                  prints message with these options

(Note that this particular program does not abide by the POSIX conventions 
stipulating the use of two hyphens for multiple-character option names.)


However, you may be surprised at the result of invoking "XWin -help", which 
is to say you'll see no output (nor will the X server start up). The help 
output _is_ produced, but it goes into "/tmp/XWin.log" (!)


I hope that helps, especially by adding to your repertoire of self-help 
techniques.

Randall Schulz


At 06:42 2002-12-19, Martín De Marchi wrote:
>Is -rootless a XWin.exe parameter?
>
>Thanks.