Screen Section - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

There can be several different Monitor and Device sections in xorg.conf. Even
multiple Screen sections are possible. The ServerLayout section determines
which of these sections is used.

23.1.1 Screen Section

The screen section combines a monitor with a device section and determines the reso-
lution and color depth to use. A screen section might resemble
Section of the File /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Example 23.1 Screen Section of the File /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth
SubSection "Display"
Depth
Modes
Virtual
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth
Modes
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth
Modes
EndSubSection
Device
Identifier
Monitor
EndSection
Section determines the section type, in this case Screen.
DefaultDepth determines the color depth to use by default unless another
color depth is explicitly specified.
For each color depth, different Display subsections are specified.
Depth determines the color depth to be used with this set of Display settings.
Possible values are 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32, though not all of these might be sup-
ported by all X server modules or resolutions.
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16
16
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
1152x864
24
"1280x1024"
32
8
"1280x1024"
"Device[0]"
"Screen[0]"
"Monitor[0]"
(page 484).
Example 23.1, "Screen