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+.\" $XFree86$
+.\"
+.\" Copyright 2001-2004 Red Hat Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
+.\" All Rights Reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+.\" and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
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+.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
+.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
+.\" CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+.\" SOFTWARE.
+.TH Xdmx 1 __vendorversion__
+.SH NAME
+Xdmx - Distributed Multi-head X server
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B Xdmx
+[:display] [option ...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Xdmx
+is a proxy X server that uses one or more other X servers as its display
+devices.  It provides multi-head X functionality for displays that might
+be located on different machines.
+.I Xdmx
+functions as a front-end X server that acts as a proxy to a set of
+back-end X servers.  All of the visible rendering is passed to the
+back-end X servers.  Clients connect to the
+.I Xdmx
+front-end, and everything appears as it would in a regular multi-head
+configuration.  If Xinerama is enabled (e.g., with
+.B +xinerama
+on the command line), the clients see a single large screen.
+.PP
+.I Xdmx
+communicates to the back-end X servers using the standard X11 protocol,
+and standard and/or commonly available X server extensions.
+.SH OPTIONS
+In addition to the normal X server options described in the
+.I Xserver(1)
+manual page,
+.I Xdmx
+accepts the following command line switches:
+.TP 8
+.BI "\-display " display-name
+This specifies the name(s) of the back-end X server display(s) to connect
+to.  This option may be specified multiple times to connect to more than
+one back-end display.  The first is used as screen 0, the second as screen 1,
+etc.  If this option is omitted, the
+.B $DISPLAY
+environment variable is used as the single back-end X server display.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "\-xinput " input-source
+This specifies the source to use for XInput extension devices.  The
+choices are the same as for
+.BR "\-input " ,
+described below, except that core devices on backend servers cannot be
+treated as XInput extension devices.  (Although extension devices on
+backend and console servers are supported as extension devices under
+.IR Xdmx ).
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "\-input " input-source
+This specifies the source to use for the core input devices.  The choices are:
+.RS
+.TP 4
+.B dummy
+A set of dummy core input drivers are used.  These never generate any
+input events.
+.sp
+.TP 4
+.B local
+The raw keyboard and pointer from the local computer are used.  A
+comma-separated list of driver names can be appended.  For example, to
+select the example Linux keyboard and PS/2 mouse driver use:
+.BR "-input local,kbd,ps2" .
+The following drivers have been implemented for Linux: kbd, ms (a
+two-button Microsoft mouse driver), ps2 (a PS/2 mouse driver), usb-mou
+(a USB mouse driver), usb-kbd (a USB keyboard driver), and usb-oth (a
+USB non-keyboard, non-mouse driver).  Additional drivers may be
+implemented in the future.  Appropriate defaults will be used if no
+comma-separated list is provided.
+.sp
+.TP 4
+.I display-name
+If the display-name is a back-end server, then core input events are
+taken from the server specified.  Otherwise, a console window will be
+opened on the specified display.
+.sp
+If the
+.I display-name
+is followed by ",xi" then XInput extension devices on the display will
+be used as
+.I Xdmx
+XInput extension devices.  If the
+.I display-name
+is followed by ",noxi" then XInput extension devices on the display will
+.B not
+be used as
+.I Xdmx
+XInput extension devices.  Currently, the default is ",xi".
+.sp
+If the
+.I display-name
+is followed by ",console" and the
+.I display-name
+refers to a display that is used as a backend display, then a console
+window will be opened on that display
+.B and
+that display will be treated as a backend display.  Otherwise (or if
+",noconsole" is used), the display will be treated purely as a backend
+or a console display, as described above.
+.sp
+If the
+.I display-name
+is followed by ",windows", then outlines of the windows on the backend
+will be displayed inside the console window.  Otherwise (or if
+",nowindows" is used), the console window will not display the outlines
+of backend windows.  (This option only applies to console input.)
+.sp
+If the
+.I display-name
+is followed by ",xkb", then the next 1 to 3 comma-separated parameters
+will specify the keycodes, symbols, and geometry of the keyboard for
+this input device.  For example, ",xkb,xfree86,pc104" will specify that
+the "xfree86" keycodes and the "pc104" symbols should be used to
+initialize the keyboard.  For an SGI keyboard, ",xkb,sgi/indy(pc102)"
+might be useful.  A list of keycodes, symbols, and geometries can be
+found in
+.IR /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb .
+If this option is not specified, the input device will be queried,
+perhaps using the XKEYBOARD extension.
+.RE
+.sp
+.RS
+If this option isn't specified, the default input source is the first
+back-end server (the one used for screen 0).  The console window shows
+the layout of the back-end display(s) and pointer movements and key
+presses within the console window will be used as core input devices.
+.sp
+Several special function keys are active, depending on the input
+source:
+.sp
+.RS
+.B Ctrl-Alt-q
+will terminate the
+.I Xdmx
+server in all modes.
+.sp
+.B Ctrl-Alt-g
+will toggle a
+server grab in console mode (a special cursor, currently a spider, is
+used to indicate an active server grab).
+.sp
+.B Ctrl-Alt-f
+will toggle fine-grain motion in console mode (a special cursor,
+currently a cross hair, is used to indicate this mode).  If this mode is
+combined with a server grab, then the cursor will have 4 lines instead
+of only 2.
+.sp
+.BR Ctrl-Alt-F1 " through " Ctrl-Alt-F12
+will switch to another VC in local (raw) mode.
+.RE
+.RE
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-shadowfb"
+This option turns on (legacy) support for the shadow frame buffer.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-noshadowfb"
+This option turns off (legacy) support for the shadow frame buffer.
+Note that this option has been deprecated and will be removed in the
+next release.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-nomulticursor"
+This option turns off support for displaying multiple cursors on
+overlapped back-end displays.  This option is available for testing and
+benchmarking purposes.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-fontpath"
+This option sets the
+.I Xdmx
+server's default font path.  This option can be specified multiple times
+to accommodate multiple font paths.  See the
+.B "FONT PATHS"
+section below for very important information regarding setting the
+default font path.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-configfile " filename
+Specify the configuration file that should be read.  Note that if the
+.B \-display
+command-line option is used, then the configuration file will be
+ignored.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-config " name
+Specify a configuration to use.  The
+.I name
+will be the name following the
+.B virtual
+keyword in the configuration file.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-stat " "interval screens"
+This option enables the display of performance statistics.  The interval
+is in seconds.  The screens is a count of the number of back-end screens
+for which data is printed each interval.  Specifying 0 for screens will
+display data for all screens.
+.sp
+For each screen, the following information is printed: the screen
+number, an absolute count of the number of XSync() calls made
+(SyncCount), the rate of these calls during the previous interval
+(Sync/s), the average round-trip time (in microseconds) of the last 10
+XSync() calls (avSync), the maximum round-trip time (in microseconds) of
+the last 10 XSync calls (mxSync), the average number of XSync() requests
+that were pending but not yet processed for each of the last 10
+processed XSync() calls, the maximum number of XSync() requests that
+were pending but not yet processed for each of the last 10 processed
+XSync() calls, and a histogram showing the distribution of the times of
+all of the XSync() calls that were made during the previous interval.
+.sp
+(The length of the moving average and the number and value of histogram
+bins are configurable at compile time in the
+.B dmxstat.h
+header file.)
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-syncbatch " interval
+This option sets the
+.I interval
+in milliseconds for XSync() batching.  An
+.I interval
+less than or equal to 0 will disable XSync() batching.  The default
+.I interval
+is 100 ms.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-nooffscreenopt"
+This option disables the offscreen optimization.  Since the lazy window
+creation optimization requires the offscreen optimization to be enabled,
+this option will also disable the lazy window creation optimization.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-nowindowopt"
+This option disables the lazy window creation optimization.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-nosubdivprims"
+This option disables the primitive subdivision optimization.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-noxkb"
+Disable use of the XKB extension for communication with the back end
+displays.  (Combine with
+.B "-kb"
+to disable all use of XKB.)
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-depth " int
+This option sets the root window's default depth.  When choosing a
+default visual from those available on the back-end X server, the first
+visual with that matches the depth specified is used.
+.sp
+This option can be combined with the
+.BI "-cc"
+option, which specifies the default color visual class, to force the use
+of a specific depth and color class for the root window.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-norender"
+This option disables the RENDER extension.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-noglxproxy"
+This option disables GLX proxy -- the build-in GLX extension
+implementation that is DMX aware.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-noglxswapgroup"
+This option disables the swap group and swap barrier extensions in GLX
+proxy.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-glxsyncswap"
+This option enables synchronization after a swap buffers call by waiting
+until all X protocol has been processed.  When a client issues a
+glXSwapBuffers request, Xdmx relays that request to each back-end X
+server, and those requests are buffered along with all other protocol
+requests.  However, in systems that have large network buffers, this
+buffering can lead to the set of back-end X servers handling the swap
+buffers request asynchronously.  With this option, an XSync() request is
+issued to each back-end X server after sending the swap buffers request.
+The XSync() requests will flush all buffered protocol (including the
+swap buffers requests) and wait until the back-end X servers have
+processed those requests before continuing.  This option does not wait
+until all GL commands have been processed so there might be previously
+issued commands that are still being processed in the GL pipe when the
+XSync() request returns.  See the
+.BI "-glxfinishswap"
+option below if Xdmx should wait until the GL commands have been
+processed.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-glxfinishswap"
+This option enables synchronization after a swap buffers call by waiting
+until all GL commands have been completed.  It is similar to the
+.BI "-glxsyncswap"
+option above; however, instead of issuing an XSync(), it issues a
+glFinish() request to each back-end X server after sending the swap
+buffers requests.  The glFinish() request will flush all buffered
+protocol requests, process both X and GL requests, and wait until all
+previously called GL commands are complete before returning.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-ignorebadfontpaths"
+This option ignores font paths that are not available on all back-end
+servers by removing the bad font path(s) from the default font path
+list.  If no valid font paths are left after removing the bad paths, an
+error to that effect is printed in the log.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-addremovescreens"
+This option enables the dynamic addition and removal of screens, which
+is disabled by default.  Note that GLXProxy and Render do not yet
+support dynamic addition and removal of screens, and must be disabled
+via the
+.BI "-noglxproxy"
+and
+.BI "-norender"
+command line options described above.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.BI "-param"
+This option specifies parameters on the command line.  Currently, only
+parameters dealing with XKEYBOARD configuration are supported.  These
+parameters apply only to the core keyboard.  Parameter values are
+installation-dependent.  Please see
+.I /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
+or a similar directory for complete information.
+.RS
+.TP 8
+.B XkbRules
+Defaults to "xfree86".  Other values may include "sgi" and "sun".
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.B XkbModel
+Defaults to "pc101".  When used with "xfree86" rules, other values may
+include "pc102", "pc104", "pc105", "microsoft", and many others.  When
+used with "sun" rules, other values may include "type4" and "type5".
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.B XkbLayout
+Defaults to "us".  Other country codes and "dvorak" are usually
+available.
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.B XkbVariant
+Defaults to "".
+.sp
+.TP 8
+.B XkbOptions
+Defaults to "".
+.RE
+.SH "CONFIGURATION FILE GRAMMAR"
+The following words and tokens are reserved:
+.RS
+.B virtual
+.B display
+.B wall
+.B option
+.B param
+.B {
+.B }
+.B ;
+.B #
+.RE
+.PP
+Comments start with a
+.B #
+mark and extend to the end of the line.  They may appear anywhere.  If a
+configuration file is read into
+.BR xdmxconfig ,
+the comments in that file will be preserved, but will not be editable.
+.PP
+The grammar is as follows:
+.RS
+virtual-list ::= [ virtual-list ] | virtual
+
+virtual ::=
+.B virtual
+[ name ] [ dim ]
+.B {
+dw-list
+.B }
+
+dw-list ::= [ dw-list ] | dw
+
+dw ::= display | wall | option
+
+display ::=
+.B display
+name [ geometry ] [ / geometry ] [ origin ]
+.B ;
+
+wall ::=
+.B wall
+[ dim ] [ dim ] name-list
+.B ;
+
+option ::=
+.B option
+name-list
+.B ;
+
+param ::=
+.B param
+name-list
+.B ;
+
+param ::=
+.B param {
+param-list
+.B }
+
+param-list ::= [ param-list ] | name-list
+.B ;
+
+name-list ::= [ name-list ] | name
+
+name ::= string | double-quoted-string
+
+dim ::= integer
+.B x
+integer
+
+geometry ::= [ integer
+.B x
+integer ] [ signed-integer signed-integer ]
+
+origin ::=
+.B @
+integer
+.B x
+integer
+.RE
+.PP
+The name following
+.B virtual
+is used as an identifier for the configuration, and may be passed to
+.B Xdmx
+using the
+.B \-config
+command line option.  The name of a display should be standard X display
+name, although no checking is performed (e.g., "machine:0").
+.PP
+For names, double quotes are optional unless the name is reserved or
+contains spaces.
+.PP
+The first dimension following
+.B wall
+is the dimension for tiling (e.g., 2x4 or 4x4).  The second dimension
+following
+.B wall
+is the dimension of each display in the wall (e.g., 1280x1024).
+.PP
+The first geometry following
+.B display
+is the geometry of the screen window on the backend server.  The second
+geometry, which is always preceeded by a slash, is the geometry of the
+root window.  By default, the root window has the same geometry as the
+screen window.
+.PP
+The
+.B option
+line can be used to specify any command-line options (e.g.,
+.BR \-input ).
+(It cannot be used to specify the name of the front-end display.)  The
+option line is processed once at server startup, just line command line
+options.  This behavior may be unexpected.
+.SH "CONFIGURATION FILE EXAMPLES"
+Two displays being used for a desktop may be specified in any of the
+following formats:
+.RS
+.nf
+virtual example0 {
+    display d0:0 1280x1024 @0x0;
+    display d1:0 1280x1024 @1280x0;
+}
+.sp
+virtual example1 {
+    display d0:0 1280x1024;
+    display d1:0 @1280x0;
+}
+.sp
+virtual example2 {
+    display "d0:0";
+    display "d1:0" @1280x0;
+}
+.sp
+virtual example3 { wall 2x1 d0:0 d1:0; }
+.fi
+.RE
+A 4x4 wall of 16 total displays could be specified as follows (if no
+tiling dimension is specified, an approximate square is used):
+.RS
+.nf
+virtual example4 {
+    wall d0:0 d1:0 d2:0 d3:0
+         d4:0 d5:0 d6:0 d7:0
+         d8:0 d9:0 da:0 db:0
+         dc:0 dd:0 de:0 df:0;
+}
+.fi
+.RE
+.SH "FONT PATHS"
+The font path used by the
+.I Xdmx
+front-end server will be propagated to each back-end server,which
+requires that each back-end server have access to the exact same font
+paths as the front-end server.  This can be most easily handled by
+either using a font server (e.g., xfs) or by remotely mounting the font
+paths on each back-end server, and then setting the
+.I Xdmx
+server's default font path with the
+-I "-fontpath"
+command line option described above.
+.PP
+For example, if you specify a font path with the following command line:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -fontpath /usr/fonts/75dpi/ -fontpath /usr/fonts/Type1/ +xinerama
+.RE
+Then, /usr/fonts/75dpi/ and /usr/fonts/Type1/ must be valid font paths
+on the
+.I Xdmx
+server and all back-end server, which is d0 in this example.
+.PP
+Font servers can also be specified with the
+.I "-fontpath"
+option.  For example, let's assume that a properly configured font
+server is running on host d0.  Then, the following command line
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -display d1:0 -fontpath tcp/d0:7100 +xinerama
+.RE
+will initialize the front-end
+.I Xdmx
+server and each of the back-end servers to use the font server on d0.
+.PP
+Some fonts might not be supported by either the front-end or the
+back-end servers.  For example, let's assume the front-end
+.I Xdmx
+server includes support Type1 fonts, but one of the back-end servers
+does not.  Let's also assume that the default font path for
+.I Xdmx
+includes Type1 fonts in its font path.  Then, when
+.I Xdmx
+initializes the default font path to load the default font, the font
+path that includes Type1 fonts (along with the other default font paths
+that are used by the
+.I Xdmx
+server) is sent to the back-end server that cannot handle Type1 fonts.
+That back-end server then rejects the font path and sends an error back
+to the
+.I Xdmx
+server.
+.I Xdmx
+then prints an error message and exits because it failed to set the
+default font path and was unable load the default font.
+.PP
+To fix this error, the offending font path must be removed from the
+default font path by using a different
+.I "-fontpath"
+command line option.
+.PP
+The
+.I "-fontpath"
+option can also be added to the configuration file as described above.
+.SH "COMMAND-LINE EXAMPLES"
+The back-end machines are d0 and d1, core input is from the pointer and
+keyboard attached to d0, clients will refer to :1 when opening windows:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -display d1:0 +xinerama
+.RE
+.PP
+As above, except with core input from d1:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -display d1:0 -input d1:0 +xinerama
+.RE
+.PP
+As above, except with core input from a console window on the local
+display:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -display d1:0 -input :0 +xinerama
+.RE
+.PP
+As above, except with core input from the local keyboard and mouse:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -display d0:0 -display d1:0 -input local,kbd,ps2 +xinerama
+.RE
+Note that local input can be used under Linux while another X session is
+running on :0 (assuming the user can access the Linux console tty and
+mouse devices): a new (blank) VC will be used for keyboard input on the
+local machine and the Ctrl-Alt-F* sequence will be available to change
+to another VC (possibly back to another X session running on the local
+machine).  Using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace on the blank VC will terminate the
+Xdmx session and return to the original VC.
+.PP
+This example uses the configuration file shown in the previous section:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -input :0 +xinerama -configfile filename -config example2
+.RE
+With this configuration file line:
+.RS
+option -input :0 +xinerama;
+.RE
+the command line can be shortened to:
+.RS
+Xdmx :1 -configfile filename -config example2
+.RE
+.SH "USING THE USB DEVICE DRIVERS"
+.P
+The USB device drivers use the devices called
+.IR /dev/input/event0 ", " /dev/input/event1 ", etc."
+under Linux.  These devices are driven using the
+.I evdev
+Linux kernel module, which is part of the hid suite.  Please note that
+if you load the
+.I mousedev
+or
+.I kbddev
+Linux kernel modules, then USB devices will appear as core Linux input
+devices and you will not be able to select between using the device only
+as an
+.I Xdmx
+core device or an
+.I Xdmx
+XInput extension device.  Further, you may be unable to unload the
+.I mousedev
+Linux kernel module if
+.I XFree86
+is configured to use
+.I /dev/input/mice
+as an input device (this is quite helpful for laptop users and is set up
+by default under some Linux distributions, but should be changed if USB
+devices are to be used with
+.IR Xdmx ).
+.PP
+The USB device drivers search through the Linux devices for the first
+mouse, keyboard, or non-mouse-non-keyboard Linux device and use that
+device.
+.SH "KEYBOARD INITIALIZATION"
+.PP
+If
+.I Xdmx
+was invoked with
+.I \-xkb
+or was
+.B not
+compiled to use the XKEYBOARD extension, then a keyboard on a backend or
+console will be initialized using the map that the host X server
+provides.
+.PP
+If the XKEYBOARD extension is used for both
+.I Xdmx
+and the host X server for the keyboard (i.e., the backend or console X
+server), then the type of the keyboard will
+be obtained from the host X server and the keyboard under
+.I Xdmx
+will be initialized with that information.  Otherwise, the default type
+of keyboard will be initialized.  In both cases, the map from the host X
+server will
+.B not
+be used.  This means that different initial behavior may be noted with
+and without XKEYBOARD.  Consistent and expected results will be obtained
+by running XKEYBOARD on all servers and by avoiding the use of
+.I xmodmap
+on the backend or console X servers prior to starting
+.IR Xdmx .
+.PP
+If
+.I \-xkbmap
+is specified on the
+.I Xdmx
+command line, then that map will currently be used for all keyboards.
+.SH "MULTIPLE CORE KEYBOARDS"
+X was not designed to support multiple core keyboards.  However,
+.I Xdmx
+provides some support for multiple core keyboards.  Best results will be
+obtained if all of the keyboards are of the same type and are using the
+same keyboard map.  Because the X server passes raw key code information
+to the X client, key symbols for keyboards with different key maps would
+be different if the key code for each keyboard was sent without
+translation to the client.  Therefore,
+.I Xdmx
+will attempt to translate the key code from a core keyboard to the key
+code for the key with the same key symbol of the
+.B first
+core keyboard that was loaded.  If the key symbol appears in both maps,
+the results will be expected.  Otherwise, the second core keyboard will
+return a NoSymbol key symbol for some keys that would have been
+translated if it was the first core keyboard.
+.ig
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+..
+.ig
+.SH FILES
+..
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR DMX "(3X), " X "(__miscmansuffix__), " Xserver "(1), " xdmxconfig "(1), "
+.BR vdltodmx "(1), " xfs "(1), " xkbcomp (1)
+.SH AUTHORS
+Kevin E. Martin
+.I <kem@redhat.com>,
+David H. Dawes
+.I <dawes@xfree86.org>,
+and
+Rickard E. (Rik) Faith
+.IR <faith@redhat.com> .
+.PP
+Portions of
+.I Xdmx
+are based on code from The XFree86 Project
+.RI ( http://www.xfree86.org )
+and X.Org
+.RI ( http://www.x.org ).