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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Black and white (greyish color) console and X11 [closed]
Can I achieve simply the state of my system with no color?
I'm using openbox.
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Mouse Scroll Wheel Speed Far too sensitive
In my crunchbang installation with X11, openbox, my wireless usb mouse is listed at both /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mouse0. It's working fine apart from the scrollwheel, which although active, is far ...
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“Xlib: extension ”Generic Event Extension“ missing on display” warnings
How to fix Xlib warning: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display?
A Google search returns many results but I still can't fix it :(.
I Tried sudo apt-get install libxcb-event0 but ...
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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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A tool for automatically applying RandR configuration when external display is plugged in
is there a tool which enables one to:
remember current RandR configuration (position, orientation, resolution etc) on per-monitor basis,
automatically apply last known good configuration as soon as ...
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Cannot switch to console anymore after using Alt_R as mod4
I'd like to use the right ALT key as 'mod4' (most notably because, by default, the 'awesome' window manager is using mod4 as a modifier for most WM commands and I like that idea a lot).
However I've ...
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Create and set custom keyboard layout
I want to create and set a custom keyboard layout with setxkbmap. I created a file in ~/.xkb/prog with this content:
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
include "latin(type4)"
...
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Laptop falls-back to Vesa video-driver
I own Dell Inspiron 15R SE (7520) and I have installed Arch Linux on it. It seems that I have two video-cards so I have installed both drivers + Vesa driver (pardon me if that's wrong).
dagrevis@haze ...
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Wine fails with DirectX on Pinguy
I am trying to use Wine to play a 3d game on Linux that will run as long as the base system has the correct Direct X rendering. I have tried the Wine configurations and come up with:
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send keystroke to process
I'd like to run some applications in fullscreen. Even though they don't have an explicit such option, it is possible with the metacity Alt-F11 command.
So, I thought I could create such an input like ...
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Avoid very fast double clicks
I have a mouse with a strange problem. The left button sometimes fires a double click even if I click just one time.
I would like to know if there's a way to avoid fast double clicks, ignoring clicks ...
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Mint GUI doesn't start
I installed Mint Linux on my laptop (DELL Inspiron, made:2005) but it has no GUI and only boots in text mode. How can I repair it?
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Invert colours on Dual-Screen / Dual-Monitor setup?
In order to invert colours on monitor, I invoke:
xcalib -invert -alter
The problem is, that on Dual-Monitor setup it inverts colors only on first screen.
I can not use Compitz gadgets for color ...
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Reverse two finger scroll direction with BCM5974?
I'm looking to reverse the scroll direction specifically on my Apple trackpad, and I'm not sure if there's an input option to do so:
Device 'bcm5974':
Device Enabled (144): 1
Coordinate ...
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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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How Do I Shrink the Visible Area of the X11 Root Window?
I would like to make the visible workspace of my desktop fill up less space than the entire monitor while keeping image fidelity constant. Presumably, any solution would leave a black border around ...
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Linux boots sometimes into kernel instead of Openbox
I have a Solid-Run Cubox and installed Debian Netboot on it.
Now I want to configure it as webserver/kiosk PC to run a self made webapp.
I installed xorg, openbox, apache/php libs and wrote my own ...
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How can bad OpenGL calls cause whole system crash?
I'm developing OpenGL game and I've copied portion of code with similar function code was partially modified for it's new function, but there was still some bugs. This code was calling OpenGL ...
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Configuring mouse for right+left button simulating middle click (for copy/paste)
I was using the mouse copy-paste extensively, until recently, when some OpenSuSe upgrade reconfigured this on all my machines. Now the scrollbuton is the one to paste (which I hate, since it's hard to ...
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Graphics dim, but mouse cursor not dim
When I resume from suspend-to-ram often the graphics on my internal screen is dim (around 30-50% intensity). Initially I thought it might be the backlight, but the mouse cursor is not dimmed - only ...
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How can I fix my X11 draw garbled icons?
I'm running linux mint 12:
$ cat /etc/issue
Linux Mint 12 Lisa \n \l
This started happening recently:
And I'm not sure why. It's not just limited to the above icons and text.
$ lspci | ...
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Two monitors and a single X-Screen: How to change “full screen” center and resolution
I have two monitors, both 1600 x 900, running as a single x-screen.
When I try to run a full screen application (a game for example), the application full screens as though my two monitors were one ...
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How can I alter my Xorg config file to fix the screen distortion I am experiencing?
I have a system running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 with an LCD display attached capable of running at a native resolution of 1600 x 900. I have configured Xorg the way I think it should work, however the ...
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Most minimalistic way to switch users in X session
If I want a minimalistic login I can use something like this in my .zprofile:
if [ $(tty) = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
startx
fi
However doing this way I cannot switch users on the fly anymore. I.e. lock ...
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How do I choose a graphics card for Linux?
I'm building or buying a new Linux system, and I'm trying to select the best graphics card for my needs. How do I go about making this decision?
There's dozens of computer-gear review sites which ...
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Using many monitors (4+) in linux
I want to be able to run more than 4 monitors (maybe 6) and it's extremely confusing what's compatible now with the Displayport cards coming out. Right now I have an ATI card that only has 2 HDMI ...
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Can the nouveau Xorg driver be used for a multihead workstation?
I'm trying a manual setup of Xorg 1.9.5, for two identical monitors connected to the VGA and DVI ports of an nVidia GeForce 6600. I get the X Server to run using a single screen, and it appears ...
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Crunch bang Linux login fails
I cannot login to Crunchbang Linux. When I boot the computer, it goes to the login screen, and if I type the correct username+password combo, it goes to a black screen that reads "failed to execute ...
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KDE4 does not finish loading
I've installed and configured xorg on arch (using these instructions) and kdebase. I've added dbus and kdm to daemons. After the login with kdm, but before finishing loading the deskop all stops and i ...
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Using USB hub for keyboard and mouse in multiseat
I want to configure a 2 user multiseat in Linux.
Is it possible to configure keyboard and mouse for second seat with a USB hub on a single USB port or I need to connect each of them to a separate USB ...
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1answer
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X server problem on slackware 14 and poulsbo module (gma500)
I have installed slackware 14 on my acer aspire one za3. I cannot start the X server. Here the output of command startx
xauth: file /home/emanuele/.serverauth.1984 does not exist
X.Org X Server ...
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K800 USB Wireless Keyboard - keyboard repeat rate intermittent problems
Any advice as to how to debug this:
My K800 USB Wireless Keyboard's repeat rate intermittently stops working.
It will start behaving erratically and when holding a key down it will either not repeat ...
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Stuck on Fedora splash screen after OpenBox3/tint2 install
My system was bogged down by Gnome3 DE and so I made an install of OpenBox3 and tint2 on a Fedora 17 system yesterday. Both were working marvelously. After a system reboot this morning, my system is ...
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Fn+F2 does not UNMUTE
I am using Lubuntu 11.10 (original, not Ubuntu + LXDE) on a Vaio VPCEG series. After install of some network manager, my key Fn+F2 got a different function.
It's printed on it the blue symbol for ...
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64bit Linux or 32bit Linux with PAE kernel causes x server to crash on boot
I have a home server that was running 64bit Linux Mint with Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, nvidia 7950GT, and RAID 0 two 150GB drives. It was running fine til the power supply failed and I had to replace it. ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot normally after manual installing of X.org
I tried to compile and install X.org (for a single card/multiseat in this tutorial) by getting source from here and installing it by:
./configure --enable-kdrive --enable-xephyr --enable-xfake ...
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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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Setting dual monitor with different resolutions using ati open source driver
I have two Monitors and am using Arch Linux, setup like this:
1280x1024(primary)
1680x1050.(secondary)
ATI RADEON X1300
Open source ATI driver
On the boot screen my primary monitor(17") have ...
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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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Virtual terminal switched when USB mouse plugged in Linux
Our machine runs a modified RedHat 9 (Kernel Linux 2.6.20-1.21, GNOME 2.10.0). When USB mouse is plugged in, the X Window will always switch out, we have to switch back by Alt + F7. There is no such ...
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How to use command line to change brightness and color?
Is there any way to change the brightness and color? Using any command line tools?
I am trying in Fedora and Ubuntu but no luck so far.
Follow up:
[command] [conneccted output] [effects R:G:B, ...
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Cannot add new mode in xrandr for external monitor
Today I was trying to connect my second monitor to my notebook. I have:
nvidia graphic card
304.43 drivers [support xrandr 1.2]
archlinux [up-to-date]
awesome wm
xrandr 1.3
My problem is with ...
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Twinview: 2 monitors difference resolutions with NVIDIA
I'm successfully using twinview to drive 2 monitors for my home theatre computer (one in the case, one projector). I recently upgraded my projector and now the two screens have vastly different ...
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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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Arch suspend when I close laptop lid?
I'm in fluxbox on Arch on a Macbook 5,1. New to linux. I'm trying to get Arch to suspend when I close my laptop. Lately I've just been using sudo pm-suspend.
I installed slimlock, and inserted
...
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barcode scanner input when running xorg and evdev
When I scan a barcode in a text console (CTRL+ALT+F1 or not running X) I get the correct input, but when I try with an application running on X, I don't get the correct barcode.
The scanner is ...
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What is “Page Flipping” on Xorg?
Digging in the Xorg logs, I've seen that exists a feature called "Page Flipping". The search engines only shows bug reports but not a full description.
So, can you give me a technical description of ...
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Running setuid binary temporarily without setuid?
Currently setting up xpra, which wants to run an X instance as non-root using the dummy driver, but the system Xorg binary is SUID. Since the system auto-updates, I would prefer not making and ...
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Duplicate keystrokes onto remote computer in realtime [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Share keyboard over network as separate device?
Sort of like a poor man's keyboard sharing. I've tried using Synergy and x2x but couldn't get them to work, so I decided ...
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KDE not loading without nomode tag in grub and bad resolution
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 KDE but it's not working fine. At first I had to use failsafe mode to boot because normal boot takes to a textual login.
If I use normal boot and text login I'm not ...
