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X- WindowThe exercises you have done thus far in this manual have deliberately been designed to force you to do things from the command line interface. The installation lab also intentionally did not walk you through configuring your X windowing system hoping that it will remain broken until you got a better picture of what goes on under the hood. This was done for two reasons; firstly to get you comfortable with working from the command line and secondly to avoid any complications you might encounter trying to choose the correct hardware and driver combination for your particular setup. The X window system has come a very long way. It is now less of a pain to get it configured and running. The Xorg server accepts the following parameters: use: X :<display> option -ac disable access control restrictions -auth file select authorization file -c turns off key-click c # key-click volume (0-100) -nolisten string don't listen on protocol -sp file security policy file -terminate terminate at server reset ttyxx server started from init on /dev/ttyxx +xinerama Enable XINERAMA extension -query host-name contact named host for XDMCP -broadcast broadcast for XDMCP -indirect host-name contact named host for indirect XDMCP -port port-num UDP port number to send messages to -from local-address specify the local address to connect from -once Terminate server after one session Device Dependent Usage -xf86config file specify a configuration file -modulepath paths specify the module search path -logfile file specify a log file name -configure probe for devices and write an XF86Config -probeonly probe for devices, then exit -scanpci execute the scanpci module and exit -verbose n verbose startup messages -quiet minimal startup messages -fbbpp n set bpp for the framebuffer. Default: 8 -depth n set colour depth. Default: 8 -screen name specify the Screen section name -keyboard name specify the core keyboard InputDevice? name -pointer name specify the core pointer InputDevice? name -disableVidMode disable mode adjustments with xvidtune -bestRefresh choose modes with the best refresh rate -version show the server version vtXX use the specified VT number -keeptty don't detach controlling tty (for debugging only)
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