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[xscreensaver] / driver / xscreensaver-command.man

diff --git a/driver/xscreensaver-command.man b/driver/xscreensaver-command.man
index 9c30af47251430b8e64d182ab8e38853a57d1d70..ff5d0bd7887bf5a150ee4944dd04d99c15420736 100644 (file)
--- a/driver/xscreensaver-command.man
+++ b/driver/xscreensaver-command.man
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 .if n .sp 1
 .if t .sp .5
 ..
-.TH XScreenSaver 1 "23-Feb-2005 (4.20)" "X Version 11"
+.TH XScreenSaver 1 "20-Mar-2005 (4.21)" "X Version 11"
 .SH NAME
 xscreensaver-command - control a running xscreensaver process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -117,10 +117,8 @@ this to activate the screensaver with a particular graphics demo.  (The first
 element in the list is numbered 1, not 0.)
 .TP 8
 .B \-exit
-Causes the xscreensaver process to exit gracefully.  This is roughly the same
-as killing the process with
-.BR kill (1),
-but it is easier, since you don't need to first figure out the pid.  
+Causes the xscreensaver process to exit gracefully.  
+This does nothing if the display is currently locked.
 
 .B Warning:
 never use \fIkill -9\fP with \fIxscreensaver\fP while the screensaver is
@@ -154,18 +152,9 @@ un-blanked.)
 .TP 8
 .B \-restart
 Causes the screensaver process to exit and then restart with the same command
-line arguments as last time.  Do this after you've changed the resource
-database, to cause xscreensaver to notice the changes.
-
-.B Warning:
-if you have a \fI.xscreensaver\fP file, this might not do what you 
-expect.  You're probably better off killing the existing 
-xscreensaver (with \fIxscreensaver\-command -exit\fP) and then
-launching it again.
-
-The important point is, you need to make sure that the xscreensaver 
-process is running as you.  If it's not, it won't be reading the 
-right \fI.xscreensaver\fP file.
+line arguments as last time.  You shouldn't really need to do this,
+since xscreensaver notices when the \fI.xscreensaver\fP file has
+changed and re-reads it as needed.
 .TP 8
 .B \-watch
 Prints a line each time the screensaver changes state: when the screen
@@ -210,7 +199,7 @@ while (<IN>) {
     }
 }
 .EE
-Note that LOCK might come either with or without a preceeding BLANK
+Note that LOCK might come either with or without a preceding BLANK
 (depending on whether the lock-timeout is non-zero), so the above program
 keeps track of both of them.
 .SH STOPPING GRAPHICS