On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:14 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding
> their man pages hard going.  Just as an example, the xterm page
> coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such
> page exists on my system, and I can find no obvious package that might
> supply it.
> 
> This raises the issue of how to find X docs.
> 
> My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm
> hoping for fairly quick usage info.
> 
> Does such exist?

On my system it indeed does and "man 7 X" is able to show it.

File is /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.bz2 (might be gz or lzma as well), if
it exists, then it's just man that can't find it, if it doesn't
then you probably need "app-doc/xorg-docs" package installed.

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net