xset使用详解

 

   Xset是上层应用程序，主要用于在XWindow启动之后，对XWindow进行一些设置,在Linux中比较好的一点就是当你不知一个命令的用法时可以使用man

man xset

XSET(1)                                                                                                                                                XSET(1)

 

NAME

       xset - user preference utility for X

 

SYNOPSIS

       xset [-display display]

       [-b] [b {on|off}] [b [volume [pitch [duration]]]]

       [-bc] [bc]

       [-c] [c {on|off}] [c [volume]]

       [+dpms] [-dpms]

            [dpms standby [ suspend [ off]]]      [dpms force {standby|suspend|off|on}]

       [fp=pathlist] [-fp=pathlist] [+fp=pathlist] [fp-pathlist] [fp+pathlist]

       [fp default] [fp rehash]

       [-led [integer]] [+led [integer]]

       [led {on|off}]

       [mouse [accel_mult[/accel_div] [threshold]]] [mouse default]

       [p pixel color]

       [-r [keycode]]  [r [keycode]] [r {on|off}] [r rate delay [rate]]

       [s [length [period]]] [s {blank|noblank}] [s {expose|noexpose}] [s {on|off}] [s default] [s activate] [s reset]

       [q]

 

DESCRIPTION

       This program is used to set various user preference options of the display.

 

OPTIONS

       -display display

               This option specifies the server to use; see X(7).

 

       b   The  b option controls bell volume, pitch and duration.  This option accepts up to three numerical parameters, a preceding dash(-), or a “on/off” flag.  If no                parameters are given, or the “on” flag is used, the system defaults will be used.  If the dash or “off” are given, the bell will be turned off.  If only one numerical  parameter  is given, the bell volume will be set to that value, as a percentage of its maximum.  Likewise, the second numerical parameter specifies the bell pitch, in hertz, and the third numerical parameter specifies the duration in milliseconds. Note that not all hardware can vary the bell characteris               tics.  The X server will set the characteristics of the bell as closely as it can to the user’s specifications.

       bc  The bc option controls bug compatibility mode in the server, if possible; a preceding dash(-) disables the mode, otherwise the mode is enabled.  Various pre-R4 clients pass illegal values in some protocol requests, and pre-R4 servers did not correctly generate errors in these cases.  Such clients, when run against an  R4  server,  will  terminate  abnormally  or  otherwise fail to operate correctly.  Bug compatibility mode explicitly reintroduces certain bugs into the X server, so that many such clients can still be run.  This mode should be used with care; new application development should be done with this mode  disabled.

The server must support the MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD protocol extension in order for this option to work.

 

       c   The  c  option  controls  key  click.   This option can take an optional value, a preceding dash(-), or an “off” flag.  If no parameter or the  “on” flag is               given, the system defaults will be used. If the dash or “off”flag is used, keyclick will be disabled.  If a value from 0 to 100 is given, it is used to indicate volume, as a percentage of the maximum.  The X server will set the volume to the nearest value that the hardware can support.

 

       -dpms   The -dpms option disables DPMS (Energy Star) features.

 

       +dpms   The +dpms option enables DPMS (Energy Star) features.

 

       dpms flags...

       The  dpms option allows the DPMS (Energy Star) parameters to be set.  The option can take up to three numerical values, or the “force”flag followed by a DPMS state.  The “force” flags forces the server to immediately switch to the DPMS state specified.  The DPMS state can be one of ‘standby’ or ‘suspend’ , ‘off’, ‘on’  When  numerical values are given, they set the inactivity period (in units of seconds) before the three modes are activated.  The first value given is for the “standby”mode, the second is for the “suspend”mode, and the third is for the “off”mode.  Setting these values implicitly enables the DPMS features. A value of zero disables a particular mode.

 

fp= path,...

      The  fp=  sets  the  font  path  to the entries given in the path argument.  The entries are interpreted by the server, not by the client.  Typically they are               directory names or font server names, but the interpretation is server-dependent.

       fp default

               The default argument causes the font path to be reset to the server’s default.

       fp rehash

               The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value, causing the server to reread the font databases in the current font path. This is generally               only used when adding new fonts to a font directory (after running mkfontdir to recreate the font database).

       -fp or fp-

               The -fp and fp- options remove elements from the current font path.  They must be followed by a comma-separated list of entries.

 

       +fp or fp+

               This +fp and fp+ options prepend and append elements to the current font path, respectively.  They must be followed by a comma-separated list of entries.

 

       led     The  led  option  controls  the  keyboard  LEDs.   This controls the turning on or off of one or all of the LEDs.  It accepts an optional integer, a preceding               dash(-) or an “off”flag.  If no parameter or the “on”flag is given, all LEDs are turned on.  If a preceding dash or the flag “off”is given, all LEDs are turned off.   If a value between 1 and 32 is given, that LED will be turned on or off depending on the existence of a preceding dash.  A common LED which can be controlled is the “Caps Lock” LED.  “xset led 3” would turn led #3 on. “xset -led 3” would turn it off.  The particular LED values may refer to dif               ferent LEDs on different hardware.

 

       mouse   The  m option controls the mouse parameters; it may be abbreviated to ‘m’.The parameters for the mouse are ‘acceleration’and ‘threshold’  The acceleration               can be specified as an integer, or as a simple fraction.  The mouse, or whatever pointer the machine is connected to, will go ‘acceleration’ times as fast when it travels more than   ‘threshold’ pixels in a short time. This way, the mouse can be used for precise alignment when it is moved slowly, yet it can be set to travel across the screen in a flick of the wrist when desired.  One or both parameters for the m option can be omitted, but if only one is given, it               will be interpreted as the acceleration.  If no parameters or the flag ‘default’is used, the system defaults will be set.

 

       p    The  p  option  controls pixel color values.  The parameters are the color map entry number in decimal, and a color specification.  The root background colors               may be changed on some servers by altering the entries for BlackPixel and WhitePixel.  Although these are often 0 and 1, they need not be.  Also, a server may choose to allocate those colors privately, in which case an error will be generated.  The map entry must not be a read-only color, or an error will result.

 

       r       The  r option controls the autorepeat. Invoking with "-r", or "r off", will disable autorepeat, whereas "r", or "r on" will enable autorepeat. Following the "-r" or "r" option with an integer keycode between 0 and 255 will disable or enable autorepeat on that key respectively, but only if it makes sense  for  the particular  keycode.  Keycodes below 8 are not typically valid for this command.  Example: "xset -r 10" will disable autorepeat for the "1" key on the top row

of an IBM PC keyboard.

If the server supports the XFree86-Misc extension, or the XKB extension, then a parameter of ‘rate’ is accepted and should be followed by zero, one or two numeric values. The first specifies the delay before autorepeat starts and the second specifies the repeat rate.  In the case that the server supports the XKBextension, the delay is the number of milliseconds before autorepeat starts, and the rate is the number of repeats per second.  If the rate or delay is not               given, it will be set to the default value.

 

       s   The s option lets you set the screen saver parameters.  This option accepts up to two numerical parameters, a ‘blank/noblank’flag, an ‘expose/noexpose’flag, an ‘on/off’ flag, an ‘activate/reset’ flag, or the ‘default’ flag. If no parameters or the ‘default’ flag is used, the system will be set to its default screen saver characteristics.   The ‘on/off’ flags simply turn the screen saver functions on or off.  The ‘activate’ flag forces activation of screen saver  even if the screen saver had been turned off.  The ‘reset’ flag forces deactivation of screen saver if it is active.  The ‘blank’ flag sets the preference to blank the video (if the hardware can do so) rather than display a background pattern, while ‘noblank’ sets the preference to display a pattern rather than blank the video.  The ‘expose’ flag sets the preference to allow window exposures (the server can freely discard window contents), while ‘noexpose’ sets the               preference to disable screen saver unless the server can regenerate the screens without causing exposure events.  The length and period parameters for the  screen saver function determines how long the server must be inactive for screen saving to activate, and the period to change the background pattern to  avoid  burn in.  The arguments are specified in seconds.  If only one numerical parameter is given, it will be used for the length.

       q   The q option gives you information on the current settings.

 

   有人肯定看到这一大堆的英文已经晕头转向了，还是希望有人把它汉化一下的，下面我来做一下汉化的工作，有一些解释都是我自己的理解有可能会不正确，希望哪天如果有人参考的话，发现明显的错误给予指出。

 

首先

-display 根据英文字面的意思是指出是哪个display在跑这个Xserver，不过我试了好多次想用这个选项，还是没有成功，所以具体怎么用还是不知道。

-b 打开和关闭电脑的嘟嘟的提示音，比如我们打开文件的是否，出错的时候发出的声音。但是听音乐还是可以照常听的

xset b on

xset b off

如果xset后面跟的是一个数值，哪默认提示音是打开的，并且它的音量就是此数值/100*最大音量。

 

-bc 关闭调试版本兼容机制

bc 打开调试版本兼容机制

xset –bc

xset bc

 

c 控制键盘的按键声

关闭/打开

xset c on

xset c off

 

dpms

xset –dpms 关闭电源之星

xset +dpms 打开电源之星，主要用来省电的

xset dpms 后面可以有三个参数的时间分别为（standby，suspend, off）

例如可以这样写

xset dpms 0 0 30 这样写就会在30s后关闭显示屏，进入省电模式。

同时这个选项还可以这样写

xset dpms force[standby|suspend|on|off]

可以强制进入以上四个模式

fp  虽然Xorg缺省已经支持了相当丰富的字体，但是还是有可能需要安装新的字体，例如某种中文字体。X Window的字体应该在配置文件中设置其搜寻路径，但在启动X Window之后，也可以使用xset命令来重新设置字体的搜寻路径。

xset fp+ ：增加一个字体搜寻目录。

xset fp- ：删除一个字体搜寻目录。

xset fp= ：重新设置字体搜寻目录。

xset fp rehash：更改某个字体目录中的内容后，强迫系统刷新字体搜寻路径。

可以使用‘xset’使用工具来修改当前会话的字体路径。用命令 xset fp 来设置字体路径；把新元素添加到前面使用 xset +fp，而添加到后面使用 xset fp+。例如，

$ xset +fp /usr/local/fonts/Type1 

$ xset fp+ /usr/local/fonts/bitmap 

反过来，从字体的路径的前面删除一个元素使用‘xset -fp’，而从后面删除使用‘xset fp-’。

 

Lcd 可以用来控制键盘上的Led灯主要有

xset -lcd

xset +lcd

在我的键盘上只有第三个灯在亮Scroll Lock，其它两个都不能通过这个来控制，但是根据它上面说描述的好像键盘上所有的灯都可以控制的，但是我在实际的操作过程中，发现好像就只有第三个可以控制

 

Mouse这一选项是用来鼠标加速的，就跟windows有一个配置鼠标移动速度的很像

xset m 100/1 4

等同于xset m 100 4

不过这个要慎重设，虽然没有什么后果，但是100后鼠标移动速度超快根本看不到鼠标。

 

P 它说这一项是用来控制像素值的，但是我设置了后没有什么效果不知道为什么

xset p 0

界面颜色无任何效果

 

 

r用来设置键盘上重复按键的，可以这么解释，我们平常按住一个键的话比如长按1，在输入处会出现很多的1，但是如果使用

xset  r off则此时无论你长按什么键，它都只会出来一次，比如长按1，它只会出来一个1

还可以针对某一特定的值

xset –r 10就是将键盘上长按1的效果去掉了，其它的都还有长按的效果的。

xset –r 11就是将键盘上长按2的效果去掉了，其它的都还有长按的效果的。以此类推

它还有一些功能设置，比如按多就可以算是一个重复按键，你可以设置1s，2s（不过这种情况要在加载了Xserver的扩展module XKB extension后才会有的功能）

 

 

s这个选项和screen saver有关，根据我的理解screen save的意思是屏保的意思，与前面的dpms有点相像，同样具有省电的功能，总共有几个选项exposure 可以屏保，noexposure不能屏保，屏保的时间可以使用

xset s 10 这样的形式来确定，单位是s，如果没有对其进行操作10s后进入屏保

xset s expose

xset s noexpose

bank和nobank是用来确定屏保的画面

xset s blank (屏保后画面为黑色的)

xset s noblank(屏保后画面是一个图案，我的是一个X)

 

q这个选项没有什么其它的参数

xset –q 用来显示我们上面配置的参数如下：

Keyboard Control:

  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002

  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  30

  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf

                        fadfffdfffdfe5ef

                        ffffffffffffffff

                        ffffffffffffffff

  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100

Pointer Control:

  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4

Screen Saver:

  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes

  timeout:  10    cycle:  600

Colors:

  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  65535

Font Path: /root/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/root/.gnome2/share/fonts

Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled

DPMS (Energy Star):

  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0

  DPMS is Enabled

  Monitor is On

File paths:

  Config file:  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules

  Log file:     /var/log/Xorg.0.log