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Description of problem: I banged my head against an access control problem for the Xnest display. ie I would create the Xnest display with "Xnest :1 &" and then try "xterm -display :1" and would have access refused. The man page for Xnest is no help at all. I did NOT RTFM for Xserver as it suggested (I read the Xnest man page too quickly). I only found the suggested fix: "Xnest :1 -ac" on a Debian help group. When I did Xnest -h the -ac option disappeared off the top of the screen.... and doing SHIFT-UP does not get me the offscreen stuff because I use the GNU-screen terminal multiplexer... (sic!) I finally RTFMed the Xnest man page that suggested RTFMing the Xserver man page where finally I saw that the -ac and a myriad of other options are listed.... I would suggest just copy/pasting the Xserver details into the Xnest man page. It might take 10K more disk space AT MOST. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Documentation requests of this nature should always be made to the upstream project. I wont make a change like this in Red Hat packaging because: 1) It creates duplication of documentation, which must then be kept in sync every time the documentation is updated, which is largely prone to human error. 2) It is the type of change that should be done upstream, rather than by Red Hat or other distributions, so that it is in one place. Upstream is unlikely to accept such a request for change due to my point #1 above. 3) Because upstream is unlikely to accept such a change, if I were to add the change locally in Red Hat packaging, it would increase the amount of package maintenance overhead as Red Hat would have to then maintain the modified documentation indefinitely, and track all changes made to the documentation upstream and merge the changes in multiple locations in our forked documentation. 4) There is no real major benefit to this change. The documentation does refer to other documentation which contains the proper up to date information. Closing request for enhancement as 'WONTFIX', however feel free to request these changes upstream at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org if you would like to get an upstream opinion as well. Thanks in advance.