RE: X server won't start in win95a

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:26 PM
> To: cygx
> Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
> 
> 
> >> XWin -screen 0 640 480
> > XWIn -screen 0 640x480x16.  I prefer to use this, though depth
> > In Harold code is useless, but I did little change so it 
> accepts -screen
> > command like on UNIX that is -screen 0 WxHxD. Many UNIX 
> users are used to
> of
> > it, thus using -screen 0 640x480x16 was returning unkown 
> -screen command
> > error.  I prefer old UNIX style command-line options.
> 
> I searched Xserver/hw/ for ddxProcessArguments and found 
> exactly one server
> that uses -screen n WxHxD, namely, vfb.  vfb is certainly not 
> the server to
> take marching orders from.  I saw a few servers that use 
> -screen n, with no
> width, height, or depth specified (they only use this to set 
> the preferred
> screen number).  Xnest uses a -geometry parameter.
> 
> In short, I see no server that uses -screen n WxHxD, other 
> than vfb.  Could
> you site a specific example of which "UNIX" server that you 
> wish to maintain
> command line compatibility with?


Vfb is one of the example which you are quoting. Also, in geometry we use
WxH for dimension.  Third, I do not see a reason to change the old
convension of -screen 0 WxH to -screen 0 W H?  I did not understand a logic
behind changing command-line parameters.  In XWIn I borrowed command-line
parameters basically from xvfb, and also the usual way of representing a
geometry is WxH, not W H therefore I borrowed it from Xvfb.  What purpose
does it server if we were to keep changing command-line parameters format?
In my opinion we will be inviting more mails from current users "like hey it
used to work like that but now my startxwin script fails, what did I do
wrong?"

Suhaib

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Harold
>