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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Why does US International Keyboard break Alt_R
All adding the U.S. English International (with dead keys) keyboard layout breaks my Alt_R key. Any ideas why?
I'm working on RHEL 5.5 using GNOME. The problem disappears if I remove the additional ...
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Setting a program as the wallpaper
From Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon:
The background of his [X] screen happens to be a uniform indigo at the moment, but it could be an image. Theoretically you could use a movie ... You can, in ...
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Disable mouse (not touchpad!) in Xorg while idle
I am an avid keyboard user, but I still need the mouse every now and then. To minimize the hand travel, I have the mouse located below my keyboard. (On a side note, using the mouse this way feels ...
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Xorg -configure doesn't work with nouveau drivers
I'm having problems setting up X.org on Gentoo.
At the moment I have kernel 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 installed and have built X against this kernel. I have nouveau drivers installed and they seem to be ...
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Why are the fonts all screwy for remote X11 apps on one Mac client?
I have two Mac OS X clients, both running XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33). When I SSH into a remote linux system enabling X11 forwarding and launch gnome-terminal, on one Mac the terminal ...
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How can I swap my two screens, left to right?
I pressed something and accidentally swapped my two screens. My left one is actually considered as the right one, and vice versa. How can I swap them back?
Edit - Specifically, I'm using Gnome, ...
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FreeBSD: Opening X applications after su to root?
Using FreeBSD 8.2. I'm accessing my machine over vnc using tightvnc. I log in as my normal user. This is okay. I can open X applications and they display fine. Then I su to root and they won't ...
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Lock screen w/ slock after a certain time?
I am running OpenBox in Arch Linux, how can I set it up so that I can have slock lock my screen after a certain amount of time (with no activity)?
Thanks!
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Xvideo extension not active with the radeon driver
On my computer running Debian squeeze with the radeon driver, the XVideo extension doesn't work (the extension itself is there but the hardware is not supported). xvinfo shows
X-Video Extension ...
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How to find out what color I gave to xsetroot?
I used xsetroot -solid "#xxxxxx" to set a background color. I like this color, but did not record the command and it's long gone from the bash shell history. How can I find out what the color was?
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Fastest way to get an Euro symbol at a prompt?
First of all I'm working on a keyboard using a QWERTY layout.
Now once in a while I need to get the Euro (€) symbol in my terminal (typically in a xterm).
If I cut'n'paste the Euro symbol, it shows ...
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xorg memory leaks
On my desktop Xorg leaks a lot of memory. I use to let this machine on for days (weeks, months ...), but about once a week I'm forced to restart xorg, because it is taking too much memory.
Am I the ...
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Some sort of X.org memory leak using nvidia proprietary driver
could please anybody help me identify what is the source of problem ? the problem is that after some time or after opening a window of some application in X, it seems like I suddenly lost 2d ...
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ungrabbing keys
I have somehow managed to get my keyboard only to work and be able to select with the mouse cursor, only when the Shift and Control keys are held.
How can I undo this?
I have tried System -> ...
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Map “windows” key on keyboard to “ctrl”
I am on Ubuntu and using a Microsoft keyboard. I want to map my Win key to a Ctrl key. How can I do that?
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Enable kill X.org with an own key combination
I've just read Enable kill X.org with ctrl+alt+backspace and am really happy, that control-alt-backspace no longer kills my X-Server. However, I'd like to have a way to kill it; it just should be ...
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Printing conjunct unicode characters using single keystroke
I want to print a conjunct unicode characters (which do not have dedicated unicode value assigned to it, but which can be print using the combination of unicode characters) using a single key stroke ...
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How to make startx use alternate xinitrc?
I don't have a desktop manager installed (and I don't want to). After logging in through the terminal I use startx to start the GUI. I have entries in ~/.xinitrc for my GUI sessions. Right now I have ...
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How is the linux graphics stack organised?
Can anybody explain(hopefully with a picture), how is the linux graphics stack organised? I hear all the time about X/GTK/GNOME/KDE etc., but I really don't have any idea what they actually do and how ...
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Customized XDM-based login screen
I am in the process of creating a lightweight yet full-featured Linux disto and don't want to include a whole bunch of unnecessary or bloated software. It is supposed to run off a USB flash drive. I ...
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How does Linux manage fonts?
When I used Windows (a very very long time ago!), and Mac OS X, there was always a central "repository" of fonts shared and accessed by the OS and all programs (the font folder in Windows, and Font ...
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Show Display Numbers on each Display
On Windows, there is an option to click on a button in the display properties called like "Identify Displays", it then shows a number over each monitor for a few seconds so that you know which display ...
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Launch a GNOME session from terminal
I'm sshing into my friends machine and I'm wondering how would i launch a GNOME session over SSH? I need to open a web browser on his machine to view something which can only be done from his ...
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X Window opened from screen
Bit of an oddish one, if I've opened an X window over SSH in a screen session will it reopen when screen is reattached? I've been able to detach and the process stays running fine, with the X window ...
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How to change Fedora 14 dual-monitor default behavior (No clone)
I am running F14 on my laptop, and I use it either with or without an external screen.
[nbarraille@barraille ~]$ xrandr | grep " connected "
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+1280+0 (normal left inverted ...
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Xorg ignoring wine application
A wine application (Anarchy online, great game try it some time) is behaving very strangely.
While rendering correctly, Xorg isn't picking up on it's existence, and because of this the game only ...
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How to retrieve monitors configuration from the command line?
I am making a script that needs to access the computer's monitor(s) configuration. How can I do that? Is there a command or a file I could read where I can access this information?
At the moment, I ...
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Unique synergy monitor setup
If anyone doesn't know about synergy, it's basically a KVM switch over the lan, but you don't have to switch anything. It allows you to move your mouse from one machine to the other like if you had ...
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Is it possible to control which monitor is considered the primary monitor?
I just added a 2nd monitor and I ran into that oh so typical issue where the monitors are swapped.
Apparently, the 2nd monitor has been identified as "monitor 0" by X.org, but it's # 2 according to ...
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IMAP mail notifier for window manager/task bar?
I am searching for a small new-email-notifier for IMAP mailboxes that displays it's status in the icon-bar (how do you call it?) of a window manager.
Basically some biff/xbiff like tool ported to ...
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Lock second mouse pointer & keyboard input to one window
This is basically a lite version of multiseat (see my other question): I can setup two mouse pointers (see e.g. here, here or here) and two keyboards (although my two identical logitech K200 keyboards ...
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Getting and setting screen size for Xorg
I would like to run a command like get-screen-resolution during a X session to get a '800x480' output. ( or whatever the actual screen size is ).
Is there something available for this? Currently I ...
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Xorg Server Failing to Startup
I am having difficulty starting up the Xorg server within my Gentoo installation. I set it up via The X Server Configuration HOWTO. When I get to the part where I startx, the screen flickers a bit, ...
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Xorg partially working for a font error
in my Debian stable, when I execute:
startx
as normal user the Xorg server begin to work, but after some second I recive in console this error:
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" ...
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Linux -> linux remote X login/desktop
What are the (best) solutions for remote desktop in linux? Ideally I'd like to be able to be able to log in to a remote X (KDE) session without even logging into my local machine. Maybe if I could ...
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What is Wayland?
I was looking for a lightweight X server, but failed to find one. Then I found out about Wayland. I says that it aims to coexist with X, but can run standalone.
When I try to compile it, it needs ...
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`p` key doesn't work in X
Today I had to force-shutdown my machine after it froze during resume from suspend. Since the reboot, I've found that the p key doesn't work normally in X. It does work normally in the console.
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[LFS] What is the most compatible tiny X server?
I've been building LFS/BLFS for about a month now, with multiple failures and almost successes, and I've just been informed that there exist Xorg-like window systems that are incredibly tiny, as ...
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Disable Composite without restarting X
In order for me to watch HD videos without tearing, I need to disable my Composite setting in xorg.conf
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
But I love my transparency, ...
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Using software OpenGL rendering with X
I want to try the most basic OpenGL driver, in order to find out what's the problem of my X server with OpenGL.
I want then to have X use software rendering for OpenGL, like windows do with ...
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X stuck when using OpenGL
On a stock Dell, RHEL 5.3, my X gets stuck when running any OpenGL program for more than a few seconds. After a few seconds, the screen freezes, and after another few seconds sometimes the screen ...
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Multi-monitor Xorg nVidia on Ubuntu 10.10 without root?
Here at work we just set up a Ubuntu Terminal Server, All of our workstations have multiple monitors, of different sizes, 2-3 screens and varying nVidia video card models, but they all are nvidia. I ...
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Getting the number and names of windows in Xvfb
I am currently working with Xvfb to grab the screenshots of my programs. Is there a way to determine the number and the names of the windows that are currently "displayed" in Xvfb?
I also appreciate ...
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Application-specific keymapping
In general, I want to make specific keymaps for application, that working only in it and doesn't affect any other app.
For example, I already use my Caps key to toggle input language (via xorg.conf), ...
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How to install xfontsel on Fedora 13? Any alternative?
I need xfontsel to select right font for xterm. But its not installed. I tried yum but it returned
Warning: No matches found for: xfontsel
No Matches found
I googled for xfontsel source code ...
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Step by step guide to setup display resolutions in xorg
The default xorg configuration file created does not allow me to set up the display resolution I want (1360x768).
The auto configuration command xorg -configure didn't create the proper configuration ...
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Can I break display devices with the xrandr command?
If use the xrandr command and set a wrong resolution/freq/..., can a break my display devices?
For instance, by setting a very high refresh freq that one of the video devices involved (video card, ...
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Ubuntu Remap script for UK Logitech Cordless Wave Keyboard
I have just bought a Logitech Cordless Wave UK Keyboard and mouse and I'm trying to get the keymapping sorted but not having much luck!
The main problem I have is none of the key seem to give me the ...
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Where do X error messages go?
If I start an X application from a terminal, the error messages go to the terminal. If I start them from a GUI, where do the error messages go, or alternatively how are they dealt with?
