Bug 36244

Summary:	XOpenDisplay has no SYNOPSIS
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component:	Lib/Xlib	Assignee:	Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2011-04-14 13:45:43 UTC

<URL: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libX11/specs/libX11/libX11.html#Opening_the_Display >

To open a connection to the X server that controls a display, use XOpenDisplay.

- AllPlanes()

- XAllPlanes

+ declaration of XOpenDisplay

display_name
	

Specifies the hardware display name, which determines the display and communications domain to be used. On a POSIX-conformant system, if the display_name is NULL, it defaults to the value of the DISPLAY environment variable.

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2011-04-14 13:50:47 UTC

http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/4950/

Comment 2 Julien Cristau 2011-04-27 01:29:52 UTC

commit b9ff9cfd5c56ae6d52c6503f7019756d9de29557
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 14 13:47:12 2011 -0700

    specs/libX11: Fix XOpenDisplay() prototype in chapter 2 [bug 36244]
    
    Was incorrectly showing AllPlanes() instead when describing XOpenDisplay()
    
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36244
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

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