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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Open a window on a remote X display (why “Cannot open display”)?
Once upon a time,
DISPLAY=:0.0 totem /path/to/movie.avi
after ssh 'ing into my desktop from my laptop would cause totem to play movie.avi on my desktop.
Now it gives the error:
No protocol ...
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Can I launch a graphical program on another user's desktop as root?
Following are other questions which I think I need to know:
From a non X Session? (meaning root isn't logged into X)
If multiple people were logged in on X, could I auto-detect who was on which ...
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Howto find my xorg.conf. Where is it?
I can't find my xorg.conf.
There is no xorg.conf file by default in Ubuntu 11.04.
If I run: "whereis xorg.conf" I am seeing: xorg: /usr/lib/xorg /usr/lib64/xorg /usr/include/xorg
may be I just can ...
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How to forward X over SSH from Ubuntu machine?
I have a machine running Ubuntu which I SSH to from my Fedora 14 machine. I want to forward X from the Ubuntu machine back to Fedora so I can run graphical programs remotely. Both machines are on a ...
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Pasting X selection (not clipboard contents) with keyboard
I'd like to be able to paste the X selection using the keyboard. Currently I have to use the middle mouse button to do this.
I gather that faking a middle mouse button press is fairly easy to do, ...
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How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
I don't remember why they did this, but at one point X.org decided that disabling CtrlAltBackspace to kill it was a good idea. I know there's a way to re-enable it but I don't remember how. Can ...
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Show a notification across all running X displays
Using the command line, I'd like show a notification on every running X display. ( and running console )
Something like:
notify-send-all 'Warning' 'Nuclear launch in 5 minutes, please evacuate'
Is ...
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Is there a way to communicate with someone at their desktop?
My wife is sitting at her home desktop, alpha, which is running a recent version of Ubuntu. I am on a bus, using ConnectBot on my G1 phone, and can SSH into alpha from wherever I am.
For complicated ...
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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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Reassign Ctl and Alt keys - xmodmap error
I am attempting to remap my keyboard in order to make emacs usable - my ergonomic keyboard puts its single Control key in an isolated 4-key island way off to the left.
The OS is debian squeeze.
Here ...
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Screen doesn't always shut off on its own
It seems like when I have certain web pages focused, my screensaver will kick in, but the screen won't turn itself off. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be? Is there a way to disable whatever ...
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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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How to troubleshoot the old X applications working incorrectly on modern X servers?
I have an old X application provided as a part of a complicated signal processing package. The application resides on the display-less server, and clients having different X-servers connect to it.
On ...
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Installed Fedora in dual boot Windows desktop. Now I can't get full monitor resolution with my AMD Radeon HD 6450
I have a 1900x1080 resolution monitor, and after installing Fedora to create a dual boot machine, the maximum resolution Fedora 14 (previously only Windows 7 was installed) can achieve is 1280x1024. ...
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Edid information
I want to gather the Edid information of the monitor.
I can get it from the xorg.0.log file when I run X with the -logverbose option.
But the problem is that If I switch the monitor (unplug the ...
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not able to create xorg.conf file
I want to change my colour depth. I posted this, and got the following answer:
Create an xorg.conf file by running Xorg -configure. Then edit the Depth entry in the Display subsection of the ...
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Why won't my X Server won't start as a regular user?
X won't start on my main machine. I can start it as root, but then it only logs me in as root -- I can't use my regular user account. When I start up, it flashes a black screen, then hangs at ...
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Determining keycode assignments for X.org on a PC
At some point around late 2008 to early 2009, some keycode values (apparently, for the keys that weren't on an XT keyboard) on a standard PC keyboard when running X.org under Linux changed. I don't ...
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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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Disable Keyboard & Mouse input on unix (under X)
How can one programmatically "freeze" the Keyboard & Mouse temporarily, so that no one could mess with the system?
There are several possibilities where this is useful. For instance, I have a ...
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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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Getting a window's PID by clicking on it
Is there any package which shows PID of a window by clicking on it?
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Sharing an X server (session) across computers
I have 2 computers (both running linux) and I'm currently using synergy to use them. This is great, but now I'm wondering, is there any way (is it possible? being worked on? tried and failed? ...
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How do I get current keyboard layout?
I'm wondering is there any command line tool, that returns current keyboard layout.
I have XkbLayout set to us, ru.
Update: setxkbmap returns layout settings, not selected layout. E.g.:
$ setxkbmap ...
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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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Command for forcing a pointer ungrab (captured mouse release)
Sometimes Firefox doesn't release the mouse after dragging, so I need to kill the application to force it to release its pointer grab.
Is there any command to force an application to ungrab 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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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 can I run a separate X session on a different physical display?
Here's what I need to do. I need to be playing a movie over HDMI to a television screen for my friends while I'm hacking on some personal projects over VGA to a smaller monitor. It's imperative that ...
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What process created this window with no PID associated? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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xinerama, 2 cards, 3 monitors
I've been trying to get this right and I'm so nearly there, but not quite. This machine has an Intel adapter with one monitor, and an ATI adapter with two. I'm happy to use xinerama to get this ...
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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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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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Preventing access to TTY when X is killed
Assume I start an X server manually from a virtual console /dev/tty1 with xinit or startx, with the line id:3:initdefault: set in /etc/inittab. The X server gets run and put on another virtual ...
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How to put some keyboard layout aside from layout switching ring?
An exact thing I need is to
switch between Russian and English layout with my favorite shortcut (namely Shift-CapsLock)
switch to Belarusian layout with another shortcut (say, Ctrl-RightShift, but ...
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Forwarding X11 over SSH if the server configuration doesn't allow it
Consider a situation where I'm logging in over SSH from machine A to machine B, I have an X session on machine A, and I want to run an X program on B.
ssh -X B makes this work transparently. But what ...
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Achieving full resolution with PowerVR SGX454 on Ubuntu 12.04
I have a Mini-PC with an ASRock AD2700B-ITX motherboard, which has an Intel PowerVR SGX545 on-board graphic chip. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it today.
Everything is working properly and is quite ...
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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 does one open a new window from the shell with a specific size and position?
For example, say I wanted to start gnome-terminal with it's northwest corner at 0,0, and make the window 736x434 pixels (apparently the default, which allows for an an 80-character by 24-character ...
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run xmodmap commands after login
I created a file ~/.Xmodmap with my mapping commands. I thought that it will be automatically launched after login (and restart) but it's not. So I have to always run after login the command
$ ...
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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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change colour depth
How do I change the colour depth? It says online to edit the xorg.conf file, but I don't have that. I am running Debian XFCE on a Powerbook G4
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If you SSH into another computer, how to access other X displays?
This is a query based on personal use. A troll in our local network had downloaded Crikey, the key-event simulator. He used it to simulate events on other computers, leading to unwanted things. For ...
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Playing sound in a user X session
I am running Linux Mint 14 and can play sound when I start my x session through mdm. however, when I start my X session using startx in user space, I am unable to get any sound play.
What could be ...
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RandR not recognizing monitor
I just plugged my EeePC to a Sony BRAVIA KDL-32EX710.
Such TV supports resolutions up to 1920x1080, but RandR only let me use resolutions from 640x480 to 1024x768. In order to use full resolution I ...
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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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xorg performance in openoffice
I've just been monitoring my cpu usage in openoffice calc when cells have been copied vs when they haven't and seen a dramatic increase in cpu usage for the Xorg process. The additional rendering ...
