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136: 106:. The user should be able to operate the system through console mode (i.e. "text mode") when configuring X, as X might fail to start due to an invalid configuration leaving the user with merely the CLI. 124:, but the specification is nearly identical. The X.org Server tries, however, to autoconfigure as much as possible with the aim of making xorg.conf unnecessary in the greatest proportion of cases. 62:
Sections can appear in any order and there may be more than one section of each kind, for example, if you have more than one monitor, say a video projector and an onboard LCD of a notebook.
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The option "SWCursor" in the Device section for example controls whether the mouse pointer is mirrored on an external monitor or suppressed.
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Inappropriate editing of this file may result in a black or illegible screen or might even damage the monitor, especially if it is a
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sections are for the logical displays, so you can have two monitors displaying the same content or entirely different information.
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It is a plain text file ordered into sections and subsections. Important sections are
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project is used by the X server to set necessary configuration parameters.
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sections are for the physical displaying devices, the
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Index

configuration file
XFree86
Unix
CRT
X.org Server
xorg.conf
Free and open-source software portal
XFree86 Modeline
Inside Linux
102
ISBN
0-7357-0940-8
LPI Linux certification in a nutshell
Sebastopol, California
O'Reilly & Associates
376
ISBN
1565927486
LCCN
2001273985
OCLC
47203144
OL
3967930M
Category
Configuration files

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