Bug 56923

Summary: [Patch] Make command line options consistent (single vs double dash)
Product: xorg Reporter: Thomas <fischer>
Component: App/xrandrAssignee: Keith Packard <keithp>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: trivial    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
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Adding double-dash long options --display and --help none

Description Thomas 2012-11-09 14:33:08 UTC 
Created attachment 69815 [details]
Adding double-dash long options --display and --help

Most of xrandr's command line options follow the system of single dashes for single character options (e.g. "-v") and double dashes for long options ("--version"). The only exceptions are "-display" and "-help", most likely for historical reasons.
To make the behavior consistent across all options, the following patch adds "--display" and "--help" as alternatives to the current inconsistency. The man page got updated as well, recommending double-dash variants for both options. The old behavior is still supported, so the patch should not break any existing usage/script.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2013-07-13 07:05:46 UTC 
Thanks - patch pushed to git master for the next xrandr release:

To ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xrandr
   bd1502f..f53d851  master -> master

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