X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc. X
is a portable, network-transparent window system. X may also be known
or referred to as X Window System, X Version 11, X Window System, Version 11
and X11.
| -display display |
This option specifies the name of
the X server to use. |
| -geometry geometry |
This option specifies the initial
size and location of the window. |
| -bg color, -bordercolor
color |
Either option specifies the color to
use for the window background. |
| -bd color, -bordercolor
color |
Either option specifies the color to
use for the window border. |
| -bw number, -borderwidth
number |
Either option specifies the width in
pixels of the window border. |
| -fg color, -foreground
color |
Either option specifies the color to
use for text or graphics. |
| -fn font, -font font |
Either option specifies the font to
use for displaying text. |
| -iconic |
This option indicates that the user
would prefer that the application's windows initially not be
visible as if the windows had be immediately iconified by the
user. Window managers may choose not to honor the application's
request. |
| -name |
This option specifies the name under
which resources for the application should be found. This option
is useful in shell aliases to distinguish between invocations of
an application, without resorting to creating links to alter the
executable file name. |
| -rv, -reverse |
Either option indicates that the
program should simulate reverse video if possible, often by
swapping the foreground and background colors. Not all programs
honor this or implement it correctly. It is usually only used on
monochrome displays. |
| +rv |
This option indicates that the
program should not simulate reverse video. This is used to
override any defaults since reverse video doesn't always work
properly. |
| -selectionTimeout |
This option specifies the timeout in
milliseconds within which two communicating applications must
respond to one another for a selection request. |
| -synchronous |
This option indicates that requests
to the X server should be sent synchronously, instead of
asynchronously. Since Xlib normally buffers requests to
the server, errors do not necessarily get reported immediately
after they occur. This option turns off the buffering so that
the application can be debugged. It should never be used with a
working program. |
| -title string |
This option specifies the title to
be used for this window. This information is sometimes used by a
window manager to provide some sort of header identifying the
window. |
| -xnllanguage |
This option specifies the language,
territory, and codeset for use in resolving resource and other
filenames. |
| -xrm resourcestring |
This option specifies a resource
name and value to override any defaults. It is also very useful
for setting resources that don't have explicit command line
arguments. |
