Xorg is a full featured X server that was originally designed for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems running on Intel x86 hardware. It now runs on a wider range of hardware and OS platforms.
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urxvt not loading xft font from ~/.Xdefaults
Some basic details:
archlinux 3.9.3-1
xmonad 0.11
urxvt 9.18
I can get urxvt to load my desired font manually using:
urxvt -fn "xft:Ubuntu Mono"
However, I'm unable to get this font to load ...
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resolution of attached widescreen
I wanted to connect my TV (Sony Bravia) to my Laptop. My laptop has a displayport and the TV a HDMI. So with the adapters, I'm able to connect those two, and that part works.
What doesn't work, is ...
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Window contents disappear after maximizing
Window contents usually disappear after Maximizing them! Especially Firefox. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Vaio Z56 laptop (graphics card: nVidia GeForce 9300M GS). I've read this question before and ...
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How can I replace my keyboard and mouse udev rules with xorg.conf.d?
Since it is impossible to make udev rules that affect Xorg settings run on startup, I'd like to replace these with other alternatives. At the moment, I have two primary udev scripts that I've written. ...
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?
I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed).
The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900.
The physical ...
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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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Gentoo framebuffer dual monitors
I have Gentoo and great frame buffer with smaller fonts and great resolution, also I have two monitors.
On both monitors I have same frame buffer. Is it possible to have multiple different frame ...
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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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How do I find the X window ID under the mouse pointer in bash?
From a bash script, is there some way to get the ID of the X window under the mouse pointer?
(edit) I need the process to be non-interactive.
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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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Nouveau doesn't work after upgrade to Debian Wheezy
I upgraded from Debian squeeze to wheezy. My box contains an old graphics card not supported by current Nvidia drivers for distros newer than lenny (NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]), so in my ...
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I can't login to Crunchbang Linux
I rebooted my VM and now I can't login. It gives me the following error:
Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some ...
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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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How to force release of a keyboard modifiers
Sometimes, when I use synergy between my machines when one is using full-screen VirtualBox guest I get stuck with some weird key modifiers turned on. If they exist on my keyboard (like Shift_L) I can ...
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Terminal not displaying correctly after quitting Xorg
I am running a fresh arch-linux install (as of 17/07/12) with the ATI catalyst drivers (as mentioned on the wiki page).
When I run xinit, everything works fine and looks great but when I exit the ...
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How to make Compose work in GTK and Qt apps?
I used Gnome for a long time, but preferred vanilla X input method (xim) over the default GTK behaviour. I just set GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE enviroment variables to xim, and didn't have any ...
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FC16: can't log in via LightDM or GDM (but 'startx' works fine)
I'm running Fedora Core 16 (with all patches applied as of 11 Feb 2013, AFAICT) on a dual-monitor Lenovo workstation, and can't seem to access my desktop via a graphical login manager. My system ...
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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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Change screen resolution in Fedora 16
I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 installed with Fedora 16. I only have three resolutions to pick from: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 768, and 800 x 600. None of these are satisfactory for me.
How can I get more ...
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Test for monitor resolutions
I want to buy a new display device, but I don't know if it will be supported by my card because the weirder/higher resolutions: 2560 x 1080, or 2560 x 1440.
Is there any method to create a virtual ...
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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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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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Error installing xserver-xorg-video-* package from squeeze-backports in Debian Squeeze
I wanted to upgrade my Intel Core i[357] Integrated Graphics (Arrandale) driver so that DRI would work.
But some packages were broken in the middle of the installation.
username@hostname:~$ sudo ...
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How to Fix Choppy Video Playback in Ubuntu?
On Ubuntu 10.04 I experience choppy video playback.
I am running Mplayer and have an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ video card. I have already installed the libvdpau1 library. I don't know if hardware ...
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Xorg freeze with external monitor on Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 ( Debian linux )
I have as issue with my ASUS X80L laptop ( system config: Celeron M 550, 2Gb RAM, Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 video ). I'm running Debian testing on it with X.Org v 1.12.1.902 and XFce 4.8.
Every 10-20 ...
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changing xorg driver for netbook with cedarview integrated graphics
So I was messing around. I installed debian, everything worked fine. I had to re-install debian for whatever reason. It decided to do something different and now I'm stuck with a 800x600 resolution ...
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Arclinux running xfce4 fails to start
I run archlinux xfce4 with auto-login and auto start. After upgrading today 07-MAY-13 the X fails without leaving a error message in Xorg.0.log.
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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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dual-monitor bugs during resolution setting
My OS is Slackware 13.37 64-bit. I have two monitors. Primary one supports 1920x1200 and the secondary one 1280x1024. I use this line to enable dual monitors in "non-clone" mode:
xrandr --output ...
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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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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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X.org: two 'Screens' on one 'Device'
Gentoo, linux 3.7.10
X.Org X Server 1.13.4
GDM 2.20.11
GNOME 2.32.1
Radeon HD 6850 card, radeon xorg driver
I have Radeon HD 6850 card with two DVI monitors on it. X -configure command has generated ...
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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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Vmware Xorg error compiling keymap?
I've upgraded from Opensuse 12.2 M3 to 12.2 Beta 1 and X is broken. Startup hangs after mysqld with a black screen. But I can use a console and when I try to manually start X it gives me the error ...
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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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Attach terminal to X desktop running in VM
At home I'm setting up a CentOS 5.5 server that will be running a bunch of KVM VMs. Normally pressing the CTRL-SHIFT-Fn combination on the attached keyboard switches to terminals on the host machine. ...
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How do I get sound to work outside lightdm
If for whatever reason I sudo stop lightdm running on mint and just use a simple xinit session with mutter, is there some way I can get sound to work? Whenever I do that, it seems there's no sound.
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Display problem - Random grid appears on screen
I have recently started using Arch with nvidia driver (I had a lot of problems getting nouveau to even work so I decided to try nvidia) and I started experiencing rather odd problems. Every now and ...
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Black screen closing windowed opengl apps : XIO fatal error 11
When I quit windowed OpenGL applications, mainly LWJGL ones, I get a black screen for approximately two seconds. The screen doesn't go in power save mode, it never shuts down: I can see the backlight ...
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With Synaptics “clickpad,” AreaBottomEdge prevents right-clicking
I have a new Sony Vaio Z with what I believe they're calling a "Clickpad". That is, it's a touchpad with a single physical button beneath, and the detected location of the click is used, in software, ...
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OpenBSD 5.2 and Intel GMA X4500: How to get the X Window System to work
I've just installed OpenBSD 5.2 on my desktop computer and I can't get the X Window System to work. My graphics card is Intel GMA X4500. When I run startx, my system freezes and no keyboard ...
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Why does Stackoverflow in Iceweasel cause high CPU usage for Xorg?
If I go to the front page of this site, and hit page down/page up repeatedly, it's pretty quick, and firefox-bin (iceweasel) uses maybe 50% CPU, Xorg uses maybe 40%.
If I go to Stackoverflow's main ...
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Linux Mint 13 Xfce window button disappeared & no mouse cursor in text mode
I am using Linux Mint 13 Xfce version on VBox. After one month without any problem suddenly today I noticed that the min-max-close buttons on all windows have disappeared.
Secondly, I can write in ...
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how to configure xorg.conf for extended desktop?
I would like to setup the dual monitor settings where I can use two monitors as a
single Desktop with single panel, single launcher and when some programs are maximized then it should span both the ...
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Keyboard is not responsive on xorg-server-1.13.1
When I've upgraded to xorg-server-1.13.1 keyboard stopped functioning.
I then downgrade to xorg-server-1.12.4 and xorg-drivers-1.12 and it works now.
What's the problem?
UPDATE 1
My USE flags for ...
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Fedora 18. Centering activities on one monitor
I've recently installed Fedora 18 and the only gripe I have so far is that everything is spread between two monitors. Example: The date is currently half on one monitor, half on the other. I get 'Thu ...
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Fedora 17 Xorg fails to start on boot
My Fedora 17 installation is no longer booting into X : it finished loading the boot screen, then the cursor turns into an "X", flashes a quickly a few times then the just stalls.
To get X to load, I ...
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OpenBSD, NVIDIA, and Xorg
I've installed OpenBSD 5.2 i386 on my desktop however I hit a wall when it came to running X at my native resolution (1920x1200). All of the hardware is working normally except for the video card: an ...
