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Add display suboptions to man pages
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Updates man pages with the suboptions for the `-display`.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/128
Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1620660
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Abouzied <email@aabouzied.com>
Message-Id: <20210601174117.661-1-email@aabouzied.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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ahmedaabouzied authored and kraxel committed Jun 23, 2021
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old style -sdl/-curses/... options. Use ``-display help`` to list
the available display types. Valid values for type are

``sdl``
``spice-app[,gl=on|off]``
Start QEMU as a Spice server and launch the default Spice client
application. The Spice server will redirect the serial consoles
and QEMU monitors. (Since 4.0)

``sdl[,window-close=on|off][,gl=on|core|es|off]``

Display video output via SDL (usually in a separate graphics
window; see the SDL documentation for other possibilities).

``curses``
``gtk[,grab-on-hover=on|off][,gl=on|off]``
Display video output in a GTK window. This interface provides
drop-down menus and other UI elements to configure and control
the VM during runtime.

``curses [,charset=<encoding>]``
Display video output via curses. For graphics device models
which support a text mode, QEMU can display this output using a
curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed when the graphics
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``charset=CP850`` for IBM CP850 encoding. The default is
``CP437``.

``egl-headless[,rendernode<file>]``
Offload all OpenGL operations to a local DRI device. For any
graphical display, this display needs to be paired with either
VNC or SPICE displays.

``none``
Do not display video output. The guest will still see an
emulated graphics card, but its output will not be displayed to
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also changes the destination of the serial and parallel port
data.

``gtk``
Display video output in a GTK window. This interface provides
drop-down menus and other UI elements to configure and control
the VM during runtime.

``vnc``
Start a VNC server on display <arg>

``egl-headless``
Offload all OpenGL operations to a local DRI device. For any
graphical display, this display needs to be paired with either
VNC or SPICE displays.

``spice-app``
Start QEMU as a Spice server and launch the default Spice client
application. The Spice server will redirect the serial consoles
and QEMU monitors. (Since 4.0)
ERST

DEF("nographic", 0, QEMU_OPTION_nographic,
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