conf terminology) and one Monitor
to form a screen. This section also defines the color depth and resolution(s) to be
used on that screen.
Monitor
Describes the characteristics of the monitor??”whether it supports DPMS and
what scan rates are permissible.
Device
Configures the video card.
InputDevice
Contains configuration information for an input device. There are usually at
least two of these sections??”one for a pointing device and one for a keyboard.
These sections are arranged in the hierarchy shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1. Hierarchy of sections in the X server configuration file
Server
layout
Input device Input device
Screen Screen
Monitor Device Monitor Device
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Each Screen section brings together a Monitor and Device section, and each
ServerLayout section brings together one or more Screen sections with two or more
InputDevice sections.
Multiple ServerLayout sections are used to handle alternate configurations??”for
example, a laptop configuration file could have one server layout for use on the road
and a different server layout for use at the office.
A basic configuration looks like this (the order of the sections may vary):
# Sample xorg.
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