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| author | Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com> | 2012-11-27 16:54:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> | 2012-11-27 11:13:00 -0500 |
| commit | 864c784b5cfa7ba0a9f13a097f7520a6faff2b13 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c57a7422d8168403a775a40c613477bf6b2f6f6 /man | |
| parent | 424820f4bc148accd9904953fb3702de87421e02 (diff) | |
| download | weston-864c784b5cfa7ba0a9f13a097f7520a6faff2b13.tar.gz | |
man: fill missing pieces to weston page
Config file, WAYLAND_SOCKET, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, segfault handler.
NOTE: This is a candidate for the stable branch
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/weston.man | 27 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man index 1bf87d88..228cfe5a 100644 --- a/man/weston.man +++ b/man/weston.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH WESTON 1 "2012-09-13" "Weston __version__" +.TH WESTON 1 "2012-11-27" "Weston __version__" .SH NAME weston \- the reference Wayland server .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -167,6 +167,16 @@ Make the default size of each X window .\" *************************************************************** .SH FILES . +If the environment variable is set, the configuration file is read +from the respective path, or the current directory if neither is set. +.PP +.BI $XDG_CONFIG_HOME /weston.ini +.br +.BI $HOME /.config/weston.ini +.br +.I ./weston.ini +.br +. .\" *************************************************************** .SH ENVIRONMENT . @@ -198,6 +208,8 @@ is already set, the default backend becomes This allows launching Weston as a nested server. .TP .B WAYLAND_SOCKET +For Wayland clients, holds the file descriptor of an open local socket +to a Wayland server. .TP .B XCURSOR_PATH Set the list of paths to look for cursors in. It changes both @@ -213,6 +225,8 @@ Wayland and X11 clients. See (3). .TP .B XDG_CONFIG_HOME +If set, specifies the directory where to look for +.BR weston.ini . .TP .B XDG_RUNTIME_DIR The directory for Weston's socket and lock files. @@ -220,6 +234,17 @@ Wayland clients will automatically use this. . .\" *************************************************************** .SH DIAGNOSTICS +Weston has a segmentation fault handler, that attempts to restore +the virtual console or ungrab X before raising +.BR SIGTRAP . +If you run +.BR weston " under " gdb (1) +from an X11 terminal or a different virtual terminal, and tell gdb +.IP +handle SIGSEGV nostop +.PP +This will allow weston to switch back to gdb on crash and then +gdb will catch the crash with SIGTRAP. . .\" *************************************************************** .SH BUGS |