Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.7+4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/xrdb.1.gz
User reads
xrdb [-option ...] [filename]
User reads
-remove This option indicates that the specified properties should be
removed from the server.
User tries
$ xrdb -query|sort|nl
1 *VT100*assumeAllChars: true
2 *VT100*eightBitInput: false
3 *VT100*geometry: 222x111
4 *VT100*on3Clicks: regex [^ ]+
5 *VT100*on4Clicks: regex [^$#]+
6 *VT100*on5Clicks: line
7 *VT100*rightScrollBar: true
8 *VT100*scrollBar: true
9 *VT100.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
10 *customization: -color
11 *scrollKey: True
12 *scrollTtyOutput: False
13 Emacs.bitmapIcon: off
14 Scrollbar.JumpCursor: True
15 gnuplot*tvtwm: on
16 xpdf.geometry: 1024x726
$ echo xpdf.geometry |xrdb -remove
$ xrdb -query|sort|nl
$ echo xpdf.geometry: 1024x726|xrdb
$ xrdb -query|sort|nl
1 xpdf.geometry: 1024x726
$ xrdb --help
usage: xrdb [-options ...] [filename]
where options include:
-help print this help message
-version print the program version
-display host:dpy display to use
-all do all resources [default]
-global do screen-independent resources
-screen do screen-specific resources for one screen
-screens do screen-specific resources for all screens
-n show but don't do changes
-cpp filename preprocessor to use [/usr/bin/cpp]
-nocpp do not use a preprocessor
-query query resources
-load load resources from file [default]
-override add in resources from file
-merge merge resources from file & sort
-edit filename edit resources into file
-backup string backup suffix for -edit [.bak]
-symbols show preprocessor symbols
-remove remove resources
-retain avoid server reset (avoid using this)
-quiet don't warn about duplicates
-Dname[=value], -Uname, -Idirectory passed to preprocessor
A - or no input filename represents stdin.
$ xrdb -remove xpdf.geometry
$ xrdb -query|sort|nl
$ echo xpdf.geometry: 1024x726|xrdb
$ xrdb -remove zzzz
$ xrdb -query|sort|nl
$
I have proved that there is not enough information on the man page to
figure out how the -remove command works.
Also e.g.,
$ xrdb -remove zzzz ssssss sssssssss
violates Usage, but no error is raised.
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