Questions tagged [x-server]
An X server is a program in the X Window System that handles all access to the graphics cards, display screens and input devices.
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Arch linux: My display driver chip keeps bricking
I use arch-thinkpad 6.1.7-arch1-1 on Lenovo x390 yoga with Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]. I also use i3wm on xorg. Something like every two days my built-in screen display goes black ...
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CentOS 7 - Wrong monitor detected
I have a CentOS 7 server which has a 22" Samsung Monitor attached to it. However, it is picking it up as HP 17" Monitor.
Here is the resolution I get for the HP 17" monitor:
Screen 0: ...
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Force greeter and session to share xserver
I am using LightDM 1.30.0 and I see the xserver-share variable in the lightdm.conf which I have set to true. However, on screen lock, the greeter still occupies VT8 and the session VT7. How can I ...
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Can I make Xephyr toggle user keyboard and mouse?
I need to pilot an X application with my PC, to take scientific measuring. I have an xdotool script which does the job pretty well, but while it's running, I cannot use my PC, which is frustrating and ...
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Error : No Valid proxy found in config
I Write an PHP Code for my Project & Getting issue of Error : No Valid proxy found in config
I have attached the Screenshot, Someone Have any idea to fix this issue & Add that file in config,
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X stopped working on Debian 11
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I had Debian set up to my liking with the capacity to run apps on the dedicated Nvidia graphics card except for two things I changed:
Installing primus using sudo apt install nvidia-optimus. ...
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Is a wine TTY instance possible?
I would like to know if I could connect to a wine desktop interface, like I do for Cinnamon, KDE or else. I've noticed that wine doesn't use the x-server, but the wine application to load window ...
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Which Process Started X Server In Linux With Systemd As INIT?
I'm working on a device running Linux system, however, the display device needs to be configured manually before Xserver starts, otherwise the framebuffer device won't work.
There are 2 methods to ...
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Run python window app in startx (x window)
I am running the python window app in startx, it works fine, but there is one issue. the issue will be in the next two images.
-First image, Python app running in Linux GUI window app in GUI
-Second ...
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Arch linux - Wacom display on thinkpad does not read any input
I have an issue with my wacom display on my thinkpad x390. The linux does not react to any movement of stylus or buttons on pen. I have wacom drivers installed.
this is output of libwacom-list-local-...
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Cannot resize window of desktop app on WSL2 through X server
Running a Qt desktop app on WSL2 through X server on Windows 10, I cannot drag, resize or maximize the window. I tested with VcXsrv, Xming and MobaXterm. I also tested with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. The ...
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"No Protocol Specified" even when I can telnet into the X server port?
I have a Win 11 box running Xming, a binary I've used on Win 7 without issue.
Xming is version 6.9, a 32-bit binary that nonetheless seems to run on 64-bit Linux. However I wonder if its not able to ...
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Configure X properly to start GUI programs from SSH session
I've installed xorg, xdm and fluxbox onto a GUI-less minimal Debian virtual machine instance (on GCP), then I've tried to run an application chromium or google-chrome with GUI. The execution of the ...
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Changing keyboard owner (XServer) (No window/display-manager)
I need to make a terminal (PC in kiosk mode) on a Debian-Like OS. To do this, I wrote a daemon that runs my software using the startx command. At the same time, I do not run the display and window ...
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Is it possible to run a hybrid pc on drastically low power consumption while still displaying a slideshow?
I've bought a Surface Pro 3 for my elders, and installed ZorinOS on it -- a great distro for hybrid pcs btw!!
One stuff we'd like it to do is to act as a digital photo-frame by running a slideshow of ...
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Why gui has been installed during dist-upgrade, and how can I get rid of it?
I did a dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04LTS (Server, CL-only) to 18.04LTS then 20.04LTS.
During this operation, it seems some kind of gnome gui has been installed.
By verifying based on this article: ...
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Setting DISPLAY variable on a remote XServer session
I have a CentOS system running an X2go server and I use a client machine to connect to it. I'm trying to do some command-line automation for mouse-clicks using xdotool. The automation is scripted in ...
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After system upgrade X server no longer working?
I did a paru -Syu but in the middle of it thought it got stuck and stupidly powered off the machine. Now X server encounters fatal errors and I'm not sure what to do. The machine still works and I was ...
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How can I keep the X Server open?
I am currently writing an application with GUI for an Raspberry Pi with touchpad. Currently, whenever I have transferred a new binary from the PC with the development environment to the pi, I have to ...
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How to set up a graphical interface on Ubuntu 20.04 server and use it via VcXsrv on Windows?
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I bought an Ubuntu 20.04 server without GUI. I want to set it up as a VPN server, but first I need a GUI for it or at least some opportunity to open a webbrowser on the server (I want to use ...
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xterm ignores xrdb state unless loaded twice
When I boot up i3, my xterm will be colored and configured as though my Xresources haven't been loaded yet, with default values for everything, but when I query the resource database, all my values ...
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Unable to disable Ctrl + Alt + Backspace (kills Server X / session). Linux Mint
I accidentally killed a session with Ctrl + Alt + Backspace (actually I pressed Shift too but works the same way) and decided I don't want that combination to do that (I have to use similar ...
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ssh client and cannot connect to X server
my computer is Windows (Ubuntu), the host is Linux. I am trying to access a visualization program on the host computer (Linux) in my office from my home laptop (Windows) via ssh client and when trying ...
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PulseAudio Modules are not properly configured when started on systemd or xsession, but works fine when started from terminal
I'm trying to create some virtual source so that I can virtually have a microphone that is acceptable on all application that cannot directly grab the ".monitor" from my virtual sink.
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ssh xterm xsession works but other programs error: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication
I setup xauth in part enough to get an xterm, xclock, etc. But any other program like gnome-terminal, a browser, still fails to authenticate. The two computers have the same user name and default ID ...
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How do I correctly transfer xrandr settings to xorg.conf?
I have run multiple xrandr commands to set all my monitors settings as I want them. Then I used autorandr to save the state to a config file printed here:
hanke@debian ~ » cat .config/autorandr/3-...
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Can't interact with DWM
I'm running gentoo and, as the title says, i can't interact with DWM.
By this i mean that Alt+Shift+Return doesn't open a st, Alt+p doesn't open dmenu
Weirdly Alt+Shift+q does exit DWM.
I do have st ...
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Best way to do rendering on Linux server with GPU but without a display?
I have a rendering software, to be more specific, it's a Unity3D «game» that renders video (saving rendered frames).
Unfortunately Unity3D doesn't support «headless» rendering (it can run in headless ...
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Cannot find/detect PS/2 mouse in old Debian. How to enable?
I'm trying to configure XFree86 3.1.2 on my Debian 1.1 (buzz) distribution, but after configuring XFree86, I receive the error: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (No such device) when trying to ...
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Any way to disable the closing of apps?
I have have a few apps that I don't want to be able to close. Is there any way to configure the xserver or anything else to achieve this?
The behavior I'd like to have is: click on closing x -> ...
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Need help configuring Xserver for nvidia-settings (ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system)
first of all I am aware that there are a lot of threads with the exact same problem online, but I was unable to resolve my issue using any of the methods I found.
I ran an nvidia bug report script to ...
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How can I access X server at boot?
I am running a Java Swing application on Linux. I wrapped the Java code with a service.
I can start my_java_service from command prompt without any issue.
I want my application to start at start-up. ...
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X forwarding is interrupted while ssh stays connected
From my main host[A] (with a screen), I ssh into a relay computer[B] (with -X) from where I log into the target machine[C] (again with -X) and X forwarding seems to work well for a while. After ...
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Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxhost: unable to open display ":0"
Everytime i open a new console,the error info shown
xxd ~/.Xauthority
00000000: 0100 0006 6465 6269 616e 0002 3130 0012 ....debian..10..
00000010: 4d49 542d 4d41 4749 432d 434f 4f4b 4945 MIT-...
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Is X server running? xdpyinfo: unable to open display "" on Ubuntu 18.04 server
I'm attempting to start a program that requires rendering a window (Unity Game) on a remote server that doesn't have a display attached to it. I wouldn't want to use ssh -X to forward rendering ...
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How can I use my Intel GPU in a headless X server?
When OpenGL rendering something using my normal X server, intel_gpu_top shows me that Render/3D/0 is being used (to about 60%). When doing the same rendering on a dummy X server (the xserver-xorg-...
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Why does the X window system handle keyboard input?
When people discuss the X window system, they mostly focus on the display side, i.e. how it is a networked system that handles and coordinates the graphical output of different applications in the ...
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Raspberry OS lite, TFT display, Openbox : Cannot init x
I just installed Raspberry OS lite (no desktop environment), plugged a WaveShare 2.8 TFT display in and installed Openbox and the tools below:
xorg openbox obmenu openbox-menu menu slim (slim for auto ...
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One monitor, 2 boxes - want to do remote login and X from one to the other, how?
So I have a laptop, an older box, and one monitor. The former has some work stuff which is sensitive, I want to use the other one for anything web browsing etc. Both run linux (manjaro the first, pop-...
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CentOS 7: xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error
I am little new to CentOS having issues with starting xserver. This is a intel machine with additional 2x RTX 2080 Ti GPUs for computing. So far I have tried:
[abc@machine ~]$ startx
xauth: file /...
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Help with remapping control to escape using xmodmap?
So I'm currently using this to achieve
CapsLock + Anykey = Control + Anykey
Shift + CapsLock = CapsLock
clear lock
clear control
add control = Caps_Lock Control_L Control_R
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Startup Applications Seemingly Starting in Wrong X Window Server (Debian)
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When I initially installed linux, I installed KDE and GNOME. I chose KDE as my default desktop environment and sddm as my window manager. KDE never worked (not sure why) so I have been ...
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restoring xserver
I was following this post https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=301627 but it did not work.
I deleted the X11 folder (which did not exist before, if I remember correctly -- for sure, there was ...
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Arch linux: Screenshot software cannot save to clipboard
I am trying to use xfce-screenshooter to take screenshot and save it to clipboard. Like this:
xfce4-screenshooter --region --clipboard
but when I try to paste it, there is no image. Thought it was ...
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Run X11 programs and render on cloud machine without a physical screen
I am trying to run a program that uses X11 to display (assume xeyes or something similar) on a machine in the cloud (ec2, Compute Engine, etc). I understand that I can get the windows to show up on my ...
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Define search path for shared libraries on app execution
Final goal:
I'm searching for a way to develop a GUI application under an independent environment without using VirtualBox/VM Ware/Docker.
What I did:
I created a chroot environment that I can develop ...
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How to set X11 conf file as symlink?
Xorg doesn't interpret configuration file from neither /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* nor /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/* if said file is a symbolic link.
I would like to keep my custom configuration files for ...
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Arch linux: Notifications not working in i3wm - dunst: CRITICAL: Cannot open X11 display
I use arch linux with i3wm. My notifications does not work. When I type dunst in to command line it responds whith:
WARNING: No dunstrc found.
When I type notify-send --icon=gtk-info Test "This ...
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cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs
from my previous question empty screen after booting from live persistent usb, I am able after boot to access all files and folders, but the X-server is unable to load (so I get only to tty1). From ...
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Linux desktop freezes caused by Nouveau driver
Its really annoying - every now and then the desktop completely freezes and sometimes even the UI look like a tetris game or something. And the keboard and mouse cannot be used so I have to use a SSH ...
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