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LBXPROXY(1)							   LBXPROXY(1)

NAME
       lbxproxy - Low BandWidth X proxy

SYNOPSIS
       lbxproxy [:<display>] [option]

DESCRIPTION
       Applications  that  would  like	to take advantage of the Low Bandwidth
       extension to X (LBX) must make their connections to an lbxproxy.	 These
       applications need to know nothing about LBX, they simply connect to the
       lbxproxy as if were a regular server.  The lbxproxy accepts client con‐
       nections,  multiplexes  them  over a single connection to the X server,
       and performs various optimizations on the X protocol to make it	faster
       over low bandwidth and/or high latency connections.

       With  regard  to	 authentication/authorization,	lbxproxy simply passes
       along to the server the credentials presented by the client.   Since  X
       clients will connect to lbxproxy, it is important that the user's .Xau‐
       thority file contain entries with valid keys associated with  the  net‐
       work  ID	 of  the proxy.	 lbxproxy does not get involved with how these
       entries are added to the .Xauthority file.  The user is responsible for
       setting it up.

       The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional.

       If  :<display>  is specified, the proxy will use the given display port
       when listening for connections.	The display port  is  an  offset  from
       port  6000, identical to the way in which regular X display connections
       are specified.  If no port is specified on  the	command	 line  option,
       lbxproxy	 will  default	to port 63.  If the port number that the proxy
       tries to listen on is in use, the proxy will  attempt  to  use  another
       port  number.   If  the	proxy  is  not using the Proxy Manager and the
       default port number cannot be used, the port number that is  used  will
       be written to stderr.

       The other command line options that can be specified are:

       -help   Prints a brief help message about the command line options.

       -display dpy
	       Specifies the address of the X server supporting the LBX exten‐
	       sion.  If this option is not specified, the display is obtained
	       by the DISPLAY environment variable.

       -motion count
	       A  limited number of pointer motion events are allowed to be in
	       flight between the server and the proxy at any given time.  The
	       maximum	number	of  motion events that can be in flight is set
	       with this option; the default is 8.

       -maxservers number
	       The default behavior of lbxproxy is to manage a single  server.
	       However, lbxproxy can manage more than one server.  The default
	       maximum number of servers is 20.	 The number of servers can  be
	       overridden   by	 setting   the	 environment   variable	  LBX‐
	       PROXY_MAXSERVERS to the desired number.	The  order  of	prece‐
	       dence  from  highest to lowest: command line, environment vari‐
	       able, default number.

       -[terminate|reset]
	       The default behavior of lbxproxy	 is  to	 continue  running  as
	       usual  when it's last client exits.  The -terminate option will
	       cause lbxproxy to exit when the last client exits.  The	-reset
	       option will cause lbxproxy to reset itself when the last client
	       exits.  Resetting causes lbxproxy to clean up  it's  state  and
	       reconnect to the server.

       -reconnect
	       The default behavior of lbxproxy is to exit when its connection
	       to the server is broken.	 The -reconnect option will cause lbx‐
	       proxy  to  just reset instead (see -reset above) and attempt to
	       reconnect to the server.

       -I      Causes all remaining arguments to be ignored.

       -nolbx  Disables all LBX optimizations.

       -nocomp Disables stream compression.

       -nodelta
	       Disables delta request substitutions.

       -notags Disables usage of tags.

       -nogfx  Disables reencoding of graphics requests (not  including	 image
	       related requests).

       -noimage
	       Disables image compression.

       -nosquish
	       Disables squishing of X events.

       -nointernsc
	       Disables short circuiting of InternAtom requests.

       -noatomsfile
	       Disables reading of the atoms control file.  See the section on
	       "Atom Control" for more details.

       -atomsfile file
	       Overrides the default AtomControl file.	 See  the  section  on
	       "Atom Control" for more details.

       -nowinattr
	       Disables	  GetWindowAttributes/GetGeometry  grouping  into  one
	       round trip.

       -nograbcmap
	       Disables colormap grabbing.

       -norgbfile
	       Disables color name to RGB resolution in proxy.

       -rgbfile path
	       Specifies an alternate RGB database for color name to RGB reso‐
	       lution.

       -tagcachesize
	       Set the size of the proxy's tag cache (in bytes).

       -zlevel level
	       Set the Zlib compression level (used for stream compression).
	       default is 6
	       1 = worst compression, fastest
	       9 = best compression, slowest

       -compstats
	       Report  stream  compression  statistics	every  time  the proxy
	       resets or receives a SIGHUP signal.

       -nozeropad
	       Don't zero out unused pad bytes in  X  requests,	 replies,  and
	       events.

       -cheaterrors
	       Allows  cheating on X protocol for the sake of improved perfor‐
	       mance.  The X protocol guarantees that any replies,  events  or
	       errors  generated  by  a	 previous  request will be sent before
	       those of a later request.  This puts  substantial  restrictions
	       on when lbxproxy can short circuit a request.  The -cheaterrors
	       option allows lbxproxy to violate X protocol rules with respect
	       to errors.  Use at your own risk.

       -cheatevents
	       The  -cheatevents  option allows lbxproxy to violate X protocol
	       rules with respect to events as well as errors.	 Use  at  your
	       own risk.

ATOM CONTROL
       At  startup, lbxproxy "pre-interns" a configurable list of atoms.  This
       allows lbxproxy to intern a group of atoms in a single round  trip  and
       immediately store the results in its cache.

       While running, lbxproxy uses heuristics to decide when to delay sending
       window property data to the server.  The heuristics depend on the  size
       of  the data, the name of the property, and whether a window manager is
       running through the same lbxproxy.

       Atom control is specified in the	 "AtomControl"	file,  set  up	during
       installation of lbxproxy, with command line overrides.

       The  file  is a simple text file.  There are three forms of lines: com‐
       ments, length control, and name control.	 Lines starting with a '!' are
       treated as comments.  A line of the form

	   z length

       specifies  the  minimum	length	in  bytes before property data will be
       delayed.	 A line of the form

	   options atomname

       controls the given atom, where options is any combination of  the  fol‐
       lowing  characters:  'i' means the atom should be pre-interned; and 'w'
       means data for properties with this name should be delayed  only	 if  a
       window manager is also running through the same lbxproxy.

BUGS
       When the authorization protocol XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 is used:

	   A  client must be on the same host as lbxproxy for the client to be
	   authorized to connect to the server.

	   If a client is not on the same host as lbxproxy,  the  client  will
	   not be authorized to connect to the server.

X Version 11			lbxproxy 1.0.1			   LBXPROXY(1)
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