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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: Paul Maier <svn-user@web.de>
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, dickey@his.com
Subject: Re: typo in "man xterm"
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120728125051.GA20318@debian50-32.invisible-island.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601cd6cbb$fd746400$f85d2c00$@de>
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:24:52PM +0200, Paul Maier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the word "not" should be added to this description:
>
>
> man xterm
> [...]
> +maximized
> This option indicates that xterm should ask the window manager to maximize its layout on startup.
>
>
> It should read:
> ... should *not* ask the window manager ...
The immediate call is made via the X server, but the window manager
is in control of the subsequent reconfiguration requests, and as
a result can keep xterm's window from changing size. To simplify
the manpage, xterm does "ask".
--
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-28 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-28 12:27 Paul Maier
2012-07-28 12:51 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2012-07-28 13:00 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2012-07-28 14:58 ` Thomas Dickey
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