The X window system (commonly X Window System or X11, based on its current major version being 11) is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUI) for networked computers.
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How can I set the position that terminal opens at?
I'd like Terminal to open near the bottom of my screen. Is there a way to set the default size and position?
I'm using Linux Mint 13, Cinnamon.
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How to dump the icon of a running X program?
Is there a way to get the icon of a running X program? When you switch between windows, you could see the icon of it, e.g through xfwm4.
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X11 on server without forwarding
I'm running a java application on my ubuntu server which refuses to open if it cannot open a window (the content of the windows is of no interest for me).
Since the server is not connected to any ...
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Set window manager's meta key depending on connected Xserver
Situation
A linux server is running an xdm supporting XDMCP, it is connected to from various different Linux and OS X boxes using XDMCP via an X -query <server> command.
Once the user is ...
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Linux in a mostly Windows dev environment
A little background: our shop has traditionally run a Microsoft software stack but now we're planning to use embedded Linux and I find myself in the role of Columbus: conquer the new world. I mention ...
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Start window in specific size and location, is there a general tool can do that?
Is there a general program, that start my GUI program, and able to specify the size and location of this program ? Not just X programs, but also other GUI libs.
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Chinese input in Linux Mint 13
I started to use Linux Mint 13 MATE a few days ago. What frustrates me most is that I can't found anywhere to change my input language. In Windows, it is easy, just Ctrl+Shift. How can I configure the ...
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What is “.xsession” for?
What is the purpose of the .xsession file in the home folder? What should be put in there? The desktop environments don't use that file and for the X startup from the tty there is .xinitrc.
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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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Script to toggle setxkbmap
I would like a bash script that toggles between:
setxkbmap se and setxkbmap us.
Then my intentions are to map that script to CtrlEsc through the Keyboard > custom shortcuts.
The point is that I ...
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Is there a tool that pastes from clipboard one character at a time?
Is there a tool that pastes from clipboard one character at a time? Something that would simulate a real person typing, like in the movies ;)
Of course I am referring to X applications, preferably ...
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x11vnc window manager
I am using x11vnc and started it so it created the X server by itself like this:
x11vnc -localhost -rfbauth -create /root/.vnc/passwd
But the VNC session created, does not have a window manager, ...
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What process created this window with no PID associated? [duplicate]
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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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What is the relation between DISPLAY :1.0 and port 5901
When I start a new X server using vncserver I can connect it using port 5901. From, say, a terminal, I can also do a:
export DISPLAY=:1.0
xterm
(it's just an example)
And I get an xterm on the ...
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Send a command from the console to a running X server
Is it possible to send a command from the console, say tty1, to the terminal currently occupied with X (in my case tty7 as I use Debian), to tell for example mplayer to play a movie?
Edit - made a ...
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Share X11 with remote server where X11 are not installed
I need a GUI on a remote server to which I have an ssh connection. Is it possible to share my X11 window system with it given that there's no X11 installed on the server?
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Is there a xterm equivalent that is optimized for use over VNC?
tl;dr Is there a terminal emulator that uses rectangular copies for scrolling?
I'm doing a lot over work over the internet just now (hacking a program on my employer's cluster that can't be ...
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Launch X11vnc server on Ubuntu remote desktop through SSH
I have a Windows computer and I am currently connected to a Ubuntu 12.04 system through SSH using CRT on my Windows computer.
I would like to know the commands that I need to run from my SSH session ...
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Switch to an application using its PID
I'm using Gnome. In vim, I want to map a key to switch to Firefox. I know that I should use bash commands (a command in form of !...). Is it possible to switch to an application using its PID?
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Setxkbmap turns off NumLock LED - but not NumLock.
Whenever I use setxkbmap in a terminal (or my .bashrc), the next time I press any modifier keys (ctrl, shift, alt) the NumLock LED on my keyboard goes off, but NumLock itself is still active so it's ...
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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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How to display xclock on another computer?
I want to display xclock on another computer.
On my computer (111) I am able to ping the other computer (222) inside my home network:
$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ...
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Methods of pasting X11 primary selection contents?
I like having a keyboard shortcut to paste contents of X11 clipboard. Right now, I have the following in my .Xresources file:
XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \n\
<Key>F2: ...
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How can I allow a different user to connect to my session using X11vnc?
I'm trying to use x11vnc to allow users to remote control certain computers. This works fine in general, but there is one aspect I have trouble implementing. I want to restrict access to a specific ...
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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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How can I force LXDE to have a transparent background when connecting with X/X11?
Just got my Raspberry Pi in the mail and I've started playing around with it. After getting LXDE up and working working in desktop mode (i.e. monitor and keyboard plugged in) I decided I wanted to ...
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Is it possible to keep a vnc server alive after log out?
I am using OpenSUSE and I have created a script that launches at startup the x11vnc server. But when the user logs out x11vnc is killed.
I want it to start again automatically.
Here the script I ...
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X11 send notification to all users on all DISPLAY's [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show a notification across all running X displays
As root, I am trying to execute a command on remote servers that pops-up a message window to users; the question is, ...
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Using X11 as a photo frame
I'm currently using a netbook as a small home server and I was thinking about extra uses I could set up. Currently it has Ubuntu (possibly a netbook-specific version) installed, so it contains ...
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Custom xkb layout in which one key creates two unicode code points
I am writing a new custom keyboard layout for Xorg, but there is one particular glyph which does not exist in Unicode. It is, however, easy to create it by using a standard letter plus a combining ...
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How to get CR2 (Canon raw) support for XLoadImage?
I've been looking for a light-weight image viewer to replace gThumb now that I'm not running Gnome anymore, and found XLoadImage. How can I add support for Canon's raw CR2 format?
anna@anna:~ $ ...
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Automatically open a remote desktop connection upon login
I have installed Linux Mint to one of my desktop PCs. I have downloaded and installed Freerdp-x11 for me to connect into my Windows Terminal Server. I want the terminal command line to connect ...
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Why Xnest server has different glxinfo than normal Xorg server?
I've run Xnest server. It appears Xnest doesn't use my graphic card or at least it doesn't use direct rendering.
Normal Xorg glxinfo
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer ...
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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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How to map a console keyboard layout to a X keyboard layout in Linux
In my distribution (Slackware 13.37), the console keyboard layout is chosen among some of those available in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps ' sub directories, coming from the kbd package.
Under X instead ...
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How can I run a script that starts before my login screen?
I was calibrating my touch screen, and saw that the best tool around was xinput_calibrator. So I used it. It have two options (one of which did not work), so I am here for the second. It says I should ...
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What is the best way to implement hotkeys support in Linux?
What is the best way to implement hotkeys support in Linux (ie support for brightness, audio or keyboard backlight keys)? By "best way" I mean robust, without code duplication, with minimal work ...
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Changing color depth in linux mint
How can I alter color depth settings in Linux Mint 13 maya?
I tried to find the xorg.conf in
/etc/X11/
But I could not find the file. Please help me..
Thanks in advance.
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XFCE Cursor themes not installing
I know this is probably a bit of a newbie question but I'm having a little trouble installing any cursor themes. I extract the archives contents to /usr/share/themes but when I go to ...
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specify geometry of a new gnuplot window in lxde
I have a script that runs a calculation and then plots the result using gnuplot script file. The problem is that I need to make more than one plot and I don't want windows to cover each other.
I ...
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Pasting the content of xclip onto gedit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copy file to xclip and paste to Firefox
I would use the following command to copy the output of uptime to the clipboard:
uptime | xclip
Then I can paste the copied ...
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How can I spy on X client messages?
In an evergoing battle against an ugly icon, I found that applications can communicate with the system tray by sending X client messages. Is there a utility for spying on these messages?
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Map caps to esc for RHEL 5?
I have an older version of RHEL. In newer versions, there is usually an option to map the caps key to the esc key. How would I do this in an old version?
Going to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> ...
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Forcing font size based on language in .fonts.conf
I can specify the default font family used to display a particular language in X by editing .fonts.conf in my user directory (or editing the global /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). However, I've not been able ...
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switch window manager when logging in in text mode
Suppose I don't start the display manager on boot and login through the terminal. How would I switch my window manager? With gdm or gdm3, you use a scroll box to select it.
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Applying changes to xorg.conf without restarting
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and making some changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I now need to restart X server to apply the changes, but I don't want to restart my machine.
I know restarting the display ...
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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 can I log what software I use the most?
I really like using open source software and would like to help fund further development. Unfortunately, I have limited funds to do so. Being somewhat greedy, I would like to donate to the projects I ...
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modify keyboard layout locally
I haven't found the correct keyboard layout for my macbook pro yet.
I've found one that looks like it though (in .xinitrc):
setxkbmap -layout us -variant mac
yet this has one difference: the (',~) ...
