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Where are the man pages for libxdamage?

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I cannot find the man pages for libxdamage. I checked libxdamage-dev, xorg-dev, and libxext-doc.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manual pages usually are only provided for executable commands, but libxdamage consists only of a shared library and a header file. So apparently man pages for libxdamage do not exist.

Maybe one of the references found in a google search can help in understanding how to used the routines:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/damageproto/plain/damageproto.txt
https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/x11-composite-tutorial/

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Chris (achrislong+ubuntu) said : 		#2

Thanks for the tips. It's historically pretty common for man pages to exist for library functions (section 3, usually) , like XLib (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/man) and some of the extensions (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcomposite/tree/man, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXext/tree/man, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXrandr/tree/man).

Too bad there aren't any for XDamage. I really thought I had seen some years ago, but I guess not. Oh, well.