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How to Save X Session — ArchLinux+Openbox

I use Arch Linux and Openbox. How can I save the state of my current openbox/X session and later restart them? The scenario is like this: I've several browsers windows open, terminals, file ...
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Can AMD and NVIDIA display cards work together on linux?

I know that two AMD graphics cards/two NVIDIA graphics cards can work together ,e.g. in xinerama/crossfire/multi-view. But if I have one AMD graphics card and one NVIDIA graphics card, can I use them ...
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Fully Disable PrntScr Key

I recently came across a Linux feature I have never seen before, where pressing the PrntScr button on the keyboard prints a physical piece of paper with the contents of my console. I really need to ...
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Laptop keyboard occasionally stops working

I have a dirty solution that is to plug a USB keyboard in and execute the following command: setxkbmap -rules evdev -layout us -model evdev Afterward my keyboard will work. This solution only ...
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Install x11 on my own linux system

I have developed my own tiny linux file system using buildroot and busybox. I used linux-2.6.38.8 kernel configured and cross-compiled for target system(X86) according to needs.Now the filesystem is ...
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Is there a way to undo VGA adapter modesetting in Linux

I'm looking for a way to reset the graphics adapter to textmode after it has been set to some sort of graphical mode by the kernel on bootup, and possibly used by an X server. Is there any code to do ...
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Cannot change brightness after standby or logout

Laptop: Toshiba R630 http://www.linlap.com/toshiba_portege_r700-r705 OS: Mint 14, Cinnamon $ lspci | grep -i vGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated ...
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How to configure xorg.conf for widescreen VNC on headless Linux/Ubuntu?

I have a Ubuntu 12.10 Box configured to run headless. I've managed to boot X headless by a lot of trial and error but I still have a glitch: When booting using the monitor, it all works ok, widescreen ...
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Debian: very low resolution and an “unknown monitor” problem

Edit: I have installed CrunchBang (or #!, a Debian-based distro), and that seems to have solved all of my resolution problems. I've just installed Debian after using Linux Mint for a few months. ...
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Are SUSE servers intended to be used graphically?

After being a long-time Debian Linux user, I decided to give SUSE a try. One of the major selling points of SUSE is the YaST configuration system. It provides a set of wizards for common configuration ...
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Microsoft touch explorer mouse middle mouse button not working on Linux Mint 14 KDE [closed]

I am trying to get a Microsoft touch explorer mouse working on Linux Mint 14 KDE. The middle mouse button is not registered at all. I tried xev and pressing the middle mouse button does not trigger ...
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How to disable select-on-release right mouse button in Linux

We are having issues with mouse behavior in Linux. In Windows: In any application, to open a context menu and select an option: right mouse button down + release move the cursor to an option left ...
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possible successors of X11 [closed]

I've recently come across Wayland which tries to replace X11. "Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor ...
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Ctrl-Alt-F1 not working from X

I have a system running Debian 5.0 that doesn't respond to Ctrl-Alt-F# (1-6) Check if Ctrl, Alt, F1 and F2 are intercepted correctly... $ DISPLAY=:0 xwininfo xwininfo: Please select the window ...
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Xlib: No protocol specified [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Open a window on a remote X display (why “Cannot open display”)? I have a script that when run independently works that needs X11 Display variables to be ...
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What is keeping Wayland from overthrowing X in Linux?

Everyone agrees that Wayland is better than X11 for your usual desktop. Why is X then used by every major distro then? Is it bugs, little compability from apps (is that even an issue?) or something ...
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How to setup 3 screens with 2 ATI GPU Debian Squeeze

I want to use 3 screens on my computers with 2 graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5450. I've installed fglrx ATI drivers. Here is the result of lspci : root@dev1:~# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible ...
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xkbcomp doesn't update keymap for running xterms?

When I use setxkbmap all programs use the new layout but when I change the keyboard layout with xkbcomp to my own only newly started programs are affected (using xkbcomp with a file with a default ...
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What process created this window with no PID associated? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What process created this X11 window? I need to kill a process that spawned a window which seems to have no PID associated with it. At least that is what xdotool says: ...
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Is it possible to use OpenCL on a minimal OS without X?

I'm looking to use OpenCL for Bitcoin mining. Obviously it is technologically possible to use a GPU and OpenCL without X; Windows machines do it all the time. I'm wondering if there is a way to use ...
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How do I screencap another Xorg display?

I started another x session from my current one like so: xinit xterm -- :128 An x session starts in display :128, xterm gets run in it and everything is fine. I switched back to screen :0 (the ...
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Writing a driver to fool *nix systems about having a GPU

I'm into something about writing a "Mock GPU driver" for *nix based systems. What I mean is that, simply I want to write a driver (Behind X-server obviously) to answer X's API calls with some ...
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X11 session environment

I want to run specific command in X11 session automatically, as soon as I take the session. e.g. If I do Xephyr :2 -once -query <ip_address> then post successful authentication, a command ...
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Pulseaudio/X permission other user/SSH

My user user1 is running a graphical X session with pulse configured per-user. I need to run a graphical program that uses audio with user2. If I do su user2; program program doesn't start and I ...
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How should I start X after ssh'ing into a remote box?

I am trying to syncronize my clipboard with a remote machine using XQuartz and xsel. It works, but only after I run an X windows program: connecting from Mac OS X with Quartz running and the ...
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Can't start X window because reporting can't find a valid framebuffer device

Can't start X window because reporting can't find a valid framebuffer device. Here is the error output below: "X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, ...
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X11 forwarding through SSH

I have been playing around with X11 forwarding the past few hours and so far I've managed to forward my desktop pc's X Server to my laptop, using X11VNC as server and X2VNC as client. X2VNC uses ...
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Swap alt and windows key except when using an external keyboard

On my laptop the Alt and Windows keys are in the opposite positions that I'd prefer them in. Swapping them is fairly easy. However, my external (USB) keyboard has the Alt and Windows keys in the order ...
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firefox launch failed: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication

I logged into a Linux server (RHEL) from an linux desktop. There is not any error message at login, but I failed to launch firefox and see the following error emessage: [myname@myserver ~]$ firefox ...
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Change Startx Default on Slackware?

I installed Slackware as a VM within Virtual Box. Host is Windows 7, if it matters. I have successfully installed guest additions and XFCE starts and runs cleanly with or without the guest additions. ...
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Application receives SIGKILL on system shutdown, why not SIGTERM?

We use our Java application under X that starts from /etc/X11/Xsessions.d/9999ngoma root@denis-laptop:~# uname -a Linux denis-laptop 2.6.32-36-generic #79-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 8 22:29:26 UTC 2011 i686 ...
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X11 Forwarding Problem Netscape

I have the following problem. A working verbose x11 forward request looks like this: remote server release: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) sh-4.1$ ssh -1 -vvv -l username -o "ForwardX11 yes" ...
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Disable/modify middle-click-to-paste in X11/Xorg

I am using Slackware 13.1 (kernel 2.6) with FVWM as my desktop manager. I have frequently had issues when coding where my over-sensitive mouse registers a middle-button (mouse-wheel) click while ...
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Dual head configuration with two touchscreens in Linux

As a part of my current project I need to set up a Linux-based workstation with two monitors, both of which are multitouch-enabled (ViewSonic VX2258wm, Quanta touch panel). So, naturally, I set up a ...
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Linux - LXC; deploying images with tiniest possible X11

is it currently possible to setup LXC containers with X11 capabilities? I'm looking forward for the lightest available X11 container (memory-wise), hardware acceleration a plus but not essential. If ...
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emacs can't open display

Just recently this has started happening; I run: /usr/bin/emacsclient --alternate-editor="" --no-wait -c and get: ERROR: Display :0.0 can't be opened No other applications do this. The output ...
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Are there any GUI's for Linux that doesn't use X11?

Are there any GUI's for Linux that doesn't use X11? Since X has very poor security :O e.g.: Ubuntu, Fedora - what else are there? Goal: having a Desktop Environment without X. - what are the ...
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Are there any Linux distros currently using Wayland?

I know that Ubuntu is planning to use it in 11.10, and Fedora has announced 'eventual' migration, but I'm curious if there is something using it already that I could load in a VM to help with ...
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Spawning GDM/Display manager within already existing X11 session

I know that this is possible, I've seen it done, but I've forgotten the command. Basically, what I want to do (for various reasons) is to spawn a GDM/Gnome/etc session (a new one) from within my ...
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Lightweight X11 alternative available?

Is there any lightwight X11 alternative suited for old systems? (Say, 1GHz and 256-314MB RAM)
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Power management hook for running *X11* scripts on wake

Earlier I asked a similar question, but that one was about running system-level scripts. I have a script that runs a series of xinput commands in order to enable two-finger scrolling on my touchpad. ...