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.Dd $Mdocdate: February 3 2015 $
.Dt GLXINFO 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm glxinfo
.Nd display info about a GLX extension and OpenGL renderer.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm glxinfo
.Op Fl bhilstv
.Op Fl display Ar displayname
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
lists information about the GLX extension, OpenGL capable visuals, and the
OpenGL renderer on an X server. The GLX and renderer info includes the version
and extension attributes. The visual info lists the GLX visual attributes
available for each OpenGL capable visual (e.g. whether the visual is double
buffered, the component sizes, Z-buffering depth, etc).
.Pp
Command line options include:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl b
Find the 'best' visual and print its number.
.It Fl h
Print a short help message.
.It Fl i
Force an indirect rendering context.
.It Fl l
Print interesting OpenGL limits.
.It Fl s
Print a single extension per line.
.It Fl t
By default the visual info is presented in a concise 80 character wide
tabular format. The -t option directs glxinfo to produce a wider, more readable
tabular format.
.It Fl v
Directs glxinfo to generate a verbose format output style for
the visual list similar to the info of xdpyinfo.
.It Fl display Ar displayname
Specify the display to query.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Ev DISPLAY
To get the default host, display number, and screen.
.El
.Sh "SEE ALSO"
xdpyinfo(1)
.Sh AUTHOR
Brian Paul
.br
Modifications for XFree86 added by Mark Paton