Hello, this patch documents the option introduced in commit 8976e97.
Thanks to alanc for pointing out the commit number. Michal
From fd9747e3b4f57502407d64716af96e3a26472b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:40:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document the "-background none" option. --- hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man b/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man index 2fa72d6..a3cc7da 100644 --- a/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man +++ b/hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man @@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ to the __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) file option. By default non-local connections are not allowed. .TP 8 +.BI \-background " none" +If the driver supports it it will be asked to not clear the background on X startup. +May be useful for smooth transition with eg. fbdev driver. +For security reasons this is not the default. The screen content might show previous user session. +.TP 8 .BI \-bgamma " value" Set the blue gamma correction. .I value -- 1.7.6.3
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