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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Playing a remote movie on the remote computer
I have two computers (a desktop and a laptop) running linux connected to my local area network. I like to ssh from my laptop over to my desktop and run programs there, and sometimes listen to music on ...
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How can I save/restore window positions when I undock/dock my laptop?
I have a laptop with a docking station that has a large monitor connected to it. When the laptop is docked, I use the monitor as my primary display, and the laptop screen as a secondary display.
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Setting up X server on Centos6 minimal
I'm trying to install Centos6, but as it turned out, DVD I downloaded was just couple Mb too large (CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso) for DVD to carry. So, to save time and don't download DVD again, I ...
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Udev rules involving X11 don't run on startup
I have some udev rules written to run when I connect certain usb devices. For example, I change pointer velocity for certain mice, and change xmodmaps for particular keyboards.
The scripts work well ...
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Cinnamon failed: desktop only, no panel, no dialog frame
I am using Linux Mint 14 (MATE) with Cinnamon installed. Cinnamon failed when I tried to delete an item on the menu with menu editor. The system froze, so I logged out by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
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Intel 82845G Video Crash workaround
I have the Intel 82845G video card and trying to get X11 working with it. It routinely crashes with artifacts. I know the existing history with this driver and X11 and I am about to buy a replacement ...
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Running Mono on Centos 5 CLI
I have vps server (virtual private server) running on linux centos 5 32 bit , i installed vncserver x windows , gnome and kde environment and i connect to the vnc server from vncviewer in my windows 7 ...
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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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Querying display power status on Linux (Xorg) on command line
Is there a way to query the power status of an Xorg/X11 display from command line? I want to know if my laptop LCD is powered on after the screen saver--apparently the backlight is still on. This is ...
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Start the GUI automatically in OpenBSD
I can't find the GUI to start up automatically in OpenBSD hppa 5.3. What commands must I use to get this working?
I want to use Gnome like in OpenSuse which I am more comfortable with.
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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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How to force X to use specific display, regardless if it is plugged in?
As it says in title:
How to force xorg to use specific display trough HDMI, regardless if it is plugged in?
I have TV that has some crazy "power save" option that can't be turned off and X thinks ...
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X11 forwarding not working from putty and XMing to centos 6.4
I have centos 6.4 running on VirtualBox. I can connect to it via putty just fine. However X11 forwarding is not working. I Have Xming 6.9.0.31 running and putty 0.62 is setup for X11 forwarding:
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How can I customize the look of Thunderbird's mailbox list, message list, and headers?
Mozilla Thunderbird's message list, mailbox list, and headers use a font size that is so large, I can barely see any content in the message preview pane. I'd like to reduce these to 10px, and reduce ...
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Single key audio capture in Linux (save on key release)
I'd like to run a program that records audio only when the Right Control key is held down. On keyboard release the result would write to disk as, e.g. yy-mm-dd hh:mm.ogg. How might I do that?
$ ...
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Virtual mouse driver, possible X11 problems
I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets ...
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X11 forwarding an OpenGL application from a machine running an NVIDIA card to a machine with an AMD card
I'm interested in forwarding an X11 session over SSH, in order to launch a remote process that utilizes OpenGL (specifically, gazebo for anyone familiar.)
The problem that I seem to be running into ...
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Mouse and keyboard not working in FreeBSD 9.0
Could not use keyboard and mouse at KDM log in screen in FreeBSD 9.0 KDE
Typed on nano:
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
local_startup=${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"
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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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Can I display part of a window on the second device?
When giving presentations, I use the html/css/js-based showoff. It has a presenter mode which shows the notes and the progress in a good way for me. It seems like the idea is that somehow a second ...
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Fixing a broken X initialization
Here are the symptoms:
On reboot of my Fedora 14 system, I get to the Fedora loading screen progress bar. The system seems to progress normally, then the nvidia logo flashes, a wait cursor shows, ...
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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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So the design of client-server separation is not the bottleneck of X Window?
In the answer of this, it mentioned:
People also hear that X uses the "network" and think this is going to
be a performance bottleneck. "Network" here means local UNIX domain
socket, which has ...
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How to disable caps-lock, without remapping or disabling it?
I have an X11 program that grabs caps-lock, and uses it. The problem is, I want to disable the regular caps-lock toggling, but doing so seems to disable the key.
So whatever X11 gets for a caps-lock ...
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difference between X and Xorg executables under Debian 6.0(kernel 2.6.32-5-686)
What is the difference between X and Xorg executables? I have both in /usr/bin directory:
# file /usr/bin/Xorg
/usr/bin/Xorg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically ...
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What are the origins of rgb.txt?
Where did the list of X11 color names come from? Every resource I've found online claims the origin is unknown, but it must be recorded somewhere. The best information I've found was in an archived ...
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How does X-server calculate DPI?
From Xfce Docs:
In case you want to override the DPI (dots per inch) value calculated
by the X-server, you can select the checkbox and use the spin box to
specify the resolution to use when ...
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Launch a GUI browser on server without a GUI? [duplicate]
What's a simple way to launch a browser on an server that doesn't have a GUI, but needs a GUI-like browser? Something like Firefox or Chrome. I need to trigger a page load but it needs full javascript ...
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Anti Aliased Fonts with NoMachine NX
I am running nx server on a headless ubuntu server. Its desktop is to Unix -> Custom -> Emacs which gives me an Emacs window on the local machine. The only thing that does not work as expected is the ...
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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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Is there a way to make feh fade in between transitions?
I would like my desktop wallpaper to fade between transitions instead of a cut. Is there a way to do this with feh? Maybe using xcompmgr or compton?
If not is there a way of doing it without changing ...
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Can I access X11's clipboard from tty1-6?
Sometimes, when I'm running on battery and don't need a window manager, I'll log into tty1, fire up fbterm and Vim and work. Later, if I need the window manager, I'll use the log in GUI but switch ...
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Is it possible to x-forward windows apps to linux if windows PC running Xming?
I have been digging around looking for an answer to my question but have no been able to come up with anything.
I know that xming server allows you to transparently run linux applications on windows ...
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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 can I automatically disable my laptop's built-in keyboard in X.org?
Distro and X.org Version Information
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with xserver-xorg/quantal 1:7.7+1ubuntu4.
Disabling Built-In Keyboard in X11
I have a laptop with a built-in keyboard that no longer ...
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Openbox doesn't seem to have correct environment variables set
I've installed Debian 7.0, and then installed Openbox on top of it.
I've got some executable files in ~/bin, and this line in my .bashrc and .profile:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
I can normally ...
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How can I set left alt + right shift keyboard layout switch in xubuntu?
From what I found from xkeyboard-config man page there is no such combination, which is very upset. Is there any workaround for that?
Because I want layout change to be as in winXP.
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setxkbmap switches between 2 out of 3 layouts
Issuing that command:
setxkbmap -layout "us,ua,ru" -variant ",winkeys" -option "grp:shift_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll" -model pc105 -rules xorg
when hitting CAPS+SHIFT I'm switching between English ...
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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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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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Which user owns X display?
How to determine, as root, which user owns X display :0? (on a Fedora 18 system with defaults)
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Keyboard layout changed. How and why?
Yesterday, I upgraded my kernel (to 3.5.0-19-generic), rebooted, and had to reinstall my video drivers to get full resolution. (After upgrading the kernel, the resolution always goes to 640x480, until ...
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Cannot open GUI after ssh -X and chroot
I ssh ( with -X option ) to another computer then I I do a chroot.
I then encounter problems running X11 apps.
As one example, after the ssh I would run emacs and it would open a new window as a X11 ...
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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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How to get near-perfect screen recording quality?
Someone suggested I direct a copy of the unmodified X display to a file and afterwards convert that file to a general purpose video file. What commands would I use to do this on a Kubuntu system? ...
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Two GUI applications as different users on the same screen
I am logged as user A. I want to run a GUI application as user B. User, not root. User B is local too, not remote, I only need different environment variables. I don't want to run the second X, I want ...
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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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XAUTHORITY environ variable set repeatedly on every login
I am running a Suse Linux 11.04 system. My problem is that when I do a fresh login into a shell as root, a new Xauthority file of the form xauth***** gets created in the /root/ directory. Upon exiting ...
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Sawfish and fvwm bindings not working when logging in with a display manager
On one machine running Debian squeeze, when I log in with a display manager (I tried xdm, gdm or kdm), none of my Sawfish key or mouse bindings have any effect. If I log in in text mode then run ...
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X windowing system remote desktop procedure? (No VNC, no XN)
I want to display the desktop of my raspberry pi on my laptop. On the rPI runs Raspbian with LXDE. I am on Ubuntu 12.04/awesome. Is it possible to display the complete rPi-desktop on my laptops ...
