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Are the keyboard layouts in X.org actually called the X.org layouts or what?
Just need to know it, semantically. So most Linux/BSD systems using the X windows manager are using these layouts. For example, the "US International with dead keys" is quite different in X from the ...
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How to get cinnamon window styling
I think I may have chosen Mint-with no codecs from the downloads section. What should I do to get the nicer cinnamon window styling as in this page?. I have attached a file to show how my window title ...
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Open window maximised on X startup
I have a .xsession script. I am opening a gnome-terminal in background. I would like to open it maximised. I use Cinnamon as window manager. I do understand usually window manager is responsible for ...
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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How to force Gnome's WM (metacity) to open a program window on a specific monitor?
I need to configure a dual-head machine using Debian 6 (and, hence, Gnome 2.30.2 and xrandr 1.3.3) so that it opens applications reliably on a certain screen.
While it is trivial to move normal ...
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Get current Virtual Desktop - number/name/tag/id?
How to get number and/or name (or tag/id... etc) of currently used virtual desktop ?
Command line, scripting, C/C++ solutions allowed (, while portable to C/C++ are preferred). ;)
I'm mostly ...
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Do I need a desktop to run a GUI?
I am setting up a lightweight VM, following the guide in the Ubuntu Documentation
What I want to be able to do is ssh into the VM and then launch a GUI application. I don't need / want a desktop.
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Invert colors of the active window
Sometimes I work in low light and I need to invert the color of specific windows to reduce my eye strain. This could be my pdf viewer to web pages for reference work.
I know how to invert the entire ...
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X, Xorg and D-Bus: what is the difference?
In the process of learning to do certain things in GUI programming (e.g., reserving space on the screen for an application), I have to learn more about the Window Manager, usually X11 on Linux (I'm ...
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[LFS] What is the most compatible tiny X server?
I've been building LFS/BLFS for about a month now, with multiple failures and almost successes, and I've just been informed that there exist Xorg-like window systems that are incredibly tiny, as ...
