xserver(1) [hpux man page]

Xserver(1)						      General Commands Manual							Xserver(1)

NAME

       X - X Window System display server dispatcher

SYNOPSIS

       X [ option ...]

DESCRIPTION
:
       Hewlett-Packard	supports  two  X  servers on HP-UX platforms, the Xhp X server which supports HP VISUALIZE graphics devices and the Xf86 X
       server which supports all other graphics devices.  These X servers are delivered as /usr/bin/X11/Xhp and /usr/bin/X11/Xf86.

       The X dispatcher determines which X server to launch based on the available graphics devices.  The control file /etc/X11/Xstart can provide
       additional  guidance to the X dispatcher.  The control file allows the user to specify which X server to start for given display connection
       numbers. The only X servers supported by the X dispatcher are Xhp, Xf86 and Xvfb.  If no Xstart	file  exists,  the  dispatcher	loads  the
       appropriate  X server for the graphics device in the system.  HP-UX does not deliver the /etc/X11/Xstart file.  This file can be created by
       using the SAM/SMH utility.

OPTIONS

       If the X dispatcher is invoked with no arguments, the display connection is assumed to be :0.  The X dispatcher checks for display  connec-
       tion  options  and, if found, uses that display connection number when it checks the Xstart file.  All other options are passed on to the X
       server when it is started and it is the X server's responsibility to validate these options.  Not all options may be supported  on  both  X
       servers; refer to Xhp(1) and Xf86(1) to verify supported options for each X server.

RETURN VALUE

       None

Xstart EXAMPLES
       The control file syntax is the X server to start followed by the display connection number.  Valid entries take the form of:

       Xhp :0				       Start the Xhp X server on display connection 0

       Xf86 :10 			       Start the Xf86 X server on display 10

       /usr/bin/X11/Xhp :5		       Start the Xhp X server on display connection 5

       /usr/bin/X11/Xvfb :7		       Start the X Virtual Framebuffer server on display connection 7

FILES

       /etc/X11/Xstart			       Dispatcher control file.

       /var/X11/Xserver/logs/Xstartup.N.log    X dispatcher log file for display N.

SEE ALSO

       X(1), Xhp(1), Xf86(1)

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

       See the appropriate section in Xhp(1) or Xf86(1).

																	Xserver(1)

STARTX(1)                                                     General Commands Manual                                                    STARTX(1)

NAME

       startx - initialize an X session

SYNOPSIS

       startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] [ display ] options ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  startx  script  is  a front end to xinit(1) that provides a somewhat nicer user interface for running a single session of the X Window
       System.  It is often run with no arguments.

       Arguments immediately following the startx command are used to start a client in the same manner as xinit(1).  The  special  argument  '--'
       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 Xorg(1) server and specified in the xorg.conf(5) configuration.  Some
       examples of specifying server arguments follow; consult the manual page for your X server to determine which arguments are legal.

              startx -- -depth 16

              startx -- -dpi 100

              startx -- -layout Multihead

       To determine the client to run, startx first looks for a file called .xinitrc in the user's home directory.  If that is not found, it  uses
       the  file  xinitrc in the xinit library directory.  If command line client options are given, they override this behavior and revert to the
       xinit(1) behavior.  To determine the server to run, startx first looks for a file called .xserverrc in the user's home directory.  If  that
       is  not  found,  it  uses  the file xserverrc in the xinit library directory.  If command line server options are given, they override this
       behavior and revert to the xinit(1) behavior.  Users rarely need to provide a .xserverrc file.  See  the  xinit(1)  manual  page  for  more
       details on the arguments.

       The system-wide xinitrc and xserverrc files are found in the /etc/X11/xinit directory.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       DISPLAY                  This  variable  gets set to the name of the display to which clients should connect.  Note that this gets set, not
                                read.

       XAUTHORITY               This variable, if not already defined, gets set to $(HOME)/.Xauthority.  This is to prevent the X server,  if  not
                                given  the  -auth  argument,  from automatically setting up insecure host-based authentication for the local host.
                                See the Xserver(1) and Xsecurity(7) manual pages for more information on X client/server authentication.

FILES

       $(HOME)/.xinitrc         Client to run.  Typically a shell script which runs many programs in the background.

       $(HOME)/.xserverrc       Server to run.  The default is X.

       /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc   Client to run if the user has no .xinitrc file.

       /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc Server to run if the user has no .xserverrc file.

SEE ALSO

       xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5)

X Version 11                                                        xinit 1.3.2                                                          STARTX(1)