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Chapter 7. The X Window System
3.1.
xorg.conf
While there is rarely a need to manually edit the
understand the various sections and optional parameters available, especially when
troubleshooting.
3.1.1. The Structure
The
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
aspects of the system hardware.
Each section begins with a
title for the section) and ends with an
containing option names and at least one option value, sometimes surrounded with double
quotes (
).
"
Lines beginning with a hash mark (
human-readable comments.
Some options within the
feature on or off. Acceptable boolean values are:
•
,
,
, or
— Turns the option on.
1
on
true
yes
•
,
,
, or
0
off
false
no
The following are some of the more important sections in the order in which they appear in a
typical
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
can be found in the
xorg.conf
3.1.2.
ServerFlags
The optional
ServerFlags
in this section may be overridden by options placed in the
Section 3.1.3, "
ServerLayout
Each entry within the
ServerFlags
followed by an option enclosed in double quotation marks (
The following is a sample
Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "true" EndSection
The following lists some of the most useful options:
•
"DontZap" "<boolean>"
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file is comprised of many different sections which address specific
Section "<section-name>"
EndSection
) are not read by the X server and are used for
#
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
— Turns the option off.
file. More detailed information about the X server configuration file
man page.
section contains miscellaneous global X server settings. Any settings
"
for details).
section is on its own line and begins with the term
section:
ServerFlags
— When the value of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
line (where
<section-name>
line. Within each of the sections are lines
file accept a boolean switch which turns the
ServerLayout
).
"
is set to true, this setting prevents
<boolean>
file, it is useful to
is the
section (refer to
Option
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