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- xset - user preference utility for X
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- xxsseett [-display _d_i_s_p_l_a_y] [-b] [b on/off] [b [_v_o_l_u_m_e [_p_i_t_c_h
- [_d_u_r_a_t_i_o_n]]] [[-]bc] [-c] [c on/off] [c [_v_o_l_u_m_e]]
- [[-+]fp[-+=] _p_a_t_h[,_p_a_t_h[,...]]] [fp default] [fp rehash]
- [[-]led [_i_n_t_e_g_e_r]] [led on/off] [m[ouse]
- [_a_c_c_e_l___m_u_l_t[/_a_c_c_e_l___d_i_v] [_t_h_r_e_s_h_o_l_d]]] [m[ouse] default] [p
- _p_i_x_e_l _c_o_l_o_r] [[-]r [keycode]] [r on/off] [s [_l_e_n_g_t_h
- [_p_e_r_i_o_d]]] [s blank/noblank] [s expose/noexpose] [s
- on/off] [s default] [s activate] [s reset] [q]
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- This program is used to set various user preference
- options of the display.
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- OOPPTTIIOONNSS
- --ddiissppllaayy _d_i_s_p_l_a_y
- This option specifies the server to use; see _X_(_1_).
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- bb The bb option controls bell volume, pitch and dura-
- tion. This option accepts up to three numerical
- parameters, a preceding dash(-), or a 'on/off'
- flag. If no parameters are given, or the 'on'
- flag is used, the system defaults will be used.
- If the dash or 'off' are given, the bell will be
- turned off. If only one numerical parameter is
- given, the bell volume will be set to that value,
- as a percentage of its maximum. Likewise, the
- second numerical parameter specifies the bell
- pitch, in hertz, and the third numerical parameter
- specifies the duration in milliseconds. Note that
- not all hardware can vary the bell characteris-
- tics. The X server will set the characteristics
- of the bell as closely as it can to the user's
- specifications.
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- bbcc The bbcc option controls _b_u_g _c_o_m_p_a_t_i_b_i_l_i_t_y mode in
- the server, if possible; a preceding dash(-) dis-
- ables the mode, otherwise the mode is enabled.
- Various pre-R4 clients pass illegal values in some
- protocol requests, and pre-R4 servers did not cor-
- rectly generate errors in these cases. Such
- clients, when run against an R4 server, will ter-
- minate abnormally or otherwise fail to operate
- correctly. Bug compatibility mode explicitly
- reintroduces certain bugs into the X server, so
- that many such clients can still be run. This
- mode should be used with care; new application
- development should be done with this mode dis-
- abled. The server must support the MIT-SUNDRY-
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- NONSTANDARD protocol extension in order for this
- option to work.
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- cc The cc option controls key click. This option can
- take an optional value, a preceding dash(-), or an
- 'on/off' flag. If no parameter or the 'on' flag
- is given, the system defaults will be used. If the
- dash or 'off' flag is used, keyclick will be dis-
- abled. If a value from 0 to 100 is given, it is
- used to indicate volume, as a percentage of the
- maximum. The X server will set the volume to the
- nearest value that the hardware can support.
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- ffpp== _p_a_t_h_,_._._.
- The ffpp== sets the font path to the entries given in
- the path argument. The entries are interpreted by
- the server, not by the client. Typically they are
- directory names or font server names, but the
- interpretation is server-dependent.
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- ffpp ddeeffaauulltt
- The ddeeffaauulltt argument causes the font path to be
- reset to the server's default.
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- ffpp rreehhaasshh
- The rreehhaasshh argument resets the font path to its
- current value, causing the server to reread the
- font databases in the current font path. This is
- generally only used when adding new fonts to a
- font directory (after running _m_k_f_o_n_t_d_i_r to recre-
- ate the font database).
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- --ffpp or ffpp--
- The --ffpp and ffpp-- options remove elements from the
- current font path. They must be followed by a
- comma-separated list of entries.
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- ++ffpp or ffpp++
- This ++ffpp and ffpp++ options prepend and append ele-
- ments to the current font path, respectively.
- They must be followed by a comma-separated list of
- entries.
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- lleedd The lleedd option controls the keyboard LEDs. This
- controls the turning on or off of one or all of
- the LEDs. It accepts an optional integer, a pre-
- ceding dash(-) or an 'on/off' flag. If no parame-
- ter or the 'on' flag is given, all LEDs are turned
- on. If a preceding dash or the flag 'off' is
- given, all LEDs are turned off. If a value
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- between 1 and 32 is given, that LED will be turned
- on or off depending on the existence of a preced-
- ing dash. A common LED which can be controlled is
- the ``Caps Lock'' LED. ``xset led 3'' would turn
- led #3 on. ``xset -led 3'' would turn it off.
- The particular LED values may refer to different
- LEDs on different hardware.
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- mm The mm option controls the mouse parameters. The
- parameters for the mouse are `acceleration' and
- `threshold'. The acceleration can be specified as
- an integer, or as a simple fraction. The mouse,
- or whatever pointer the machine is connected to,
- will go `acceleration' times as fast when it trav-
- els more than `threshold' pixels in a short time.
- This way, the mouse can be used for precise align-
- ment when it is moved slowly, yet it can be set to
- travel across the screen in a flick of the wrist
- when desired. One or both parameters for the mm
- option can be omitted, but if only one is given,
- it will be interpreted as the acceleration. If no
- parameters or the flag 'default' is used, the sys-
- tem defaults will be set.
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- pp The pp option controls pixel color values. The
- parameters are the color map entry number in deci-
- mal, and a color specification. The root back-
- ground colors may be changed on some servers by
- altering the entries for BlackPixel and
- WhitePixel. Although these are often 0 and 1,
- they need not be. Also, a server may choose to
- allocate those colors privately, in which case an
- error will be generated. The map entry must not
- be a read-only color, or an error will result.
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- rr The rr option controls the autorepeat. If a pre-
- ceding dash or the 'off' flag is used, autorepeat
- will be disabled. If no parameters or the 'on'
- flag is used, autorepeat will be enabled. If a
- specific keycode is specified as a parameter,
- autorepeat for that keycode is enabled or dis-
- abled.
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- ss The ss option lets you set the screen saver parame-
- ters. This option accepts up to two numerical
- parameters, a 'blank/noblank' flag, an
- 'expose/noexpose' flag, an 'on/off' flag, an
- 'activate/reset' flag, or the 'default' flag. If
- no parameters or the 'default' flag is used, the
- system will be set to its default screen saver
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- characteristics. The 'on/off' flags simply turn
- the screen saver functions on or off. The 'acti-
- vate' flag forces activation of screen saver even
- if the screen saver had been turned off. The
- 'reset' flag forces deactivation of screen saver
- if it is active. The 'blank' flag sets the pref-
- erence to blank the video (if the hardware can do
- so) rather than display a background pattern,
- while 'noblank' sets the preference to display a
- pattern rather than blank the video. The 'expose'
- flag sets the preference to allow window exposures
- (the server can freely discard window contents),
- while 'noexpose' sets the preference to disable
- screen saver unless the server can regenerate the
- screens without causing exposure events. The
- length and period parameters for the screen saver
- function determines how long the server must be
- inactive for screen saving to activate, and the
- period to change the background pattern to avoid
- burn in. The arguments are specified in seconds.
- If only one numerical parameter is given, it will
- be used for the length.
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- qq The qq option gives you information on the current
- settings.
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- These settings will be reset to default values when you
- log out.
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- Note that not all X implementations are guaranteed to
- honor all of these options.
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- X(1), Xserver(1), xmodmap(1), xrdb(1), xsetroot(1)
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- AAUUTTHHOORR
- Bob Scheifler, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- David Krikorian, MIT Project Athena (X11 version)
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