Questions tagged [xinit]
xinit is a Unix command that starts the X Window Server.
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startx (xinit) on debian bookworm: where should I add a call to xrandr?
tl;dr: Is ~/.xsessionrc the only place to add a call to xrandr without breaking startx's connection to my x-{session,window}-manager alternatives?
I start my window manager on Debian Bookworm by ...
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How to translate setxkbmap to xinitrc config
I am setting my keyboard layout using this command on every startup:
setxkbmap us,cz -variant ,ucw -option grp:caps_switch
How can I write this configuration in to xinitrc file so xserver loads it ...
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trouble in laptop with setxkbmap
So I have a .xsession config that works well in several pc, but with a laptop I recently set up I have some issues.
When I systemctl halt [or suspend] the laptop, then when it starts again [or wakes ...
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.xinitrc, .xsession don't work (commands not run)
A quick summary:
I installed Ubuntu (Current LTS - 22.04)
I wanted to change the window manager from the default one to "dwm"
I installed dwm via apt, it works correctly,
The problem is - ...
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Linux: Open three X clients in three different VTs with one BASH script
For fun recently I set up an old laptop with Archlinux for emulating ancient operating systems. I have startx which starts the i3 window manager, but I also wrote the following BASH scripts:
Start a ...
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My screen turned off when I left my laptop unattended, and now it won't turn back on
I went to have breakfast while my laptop was running an Xorg session, now the screen doesn't turn on no matter what I do. I tried switching ttys, no dice. I ran a program using startx, my distro is ...
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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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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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Debian: xinitrc doesn't start: Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
I have a VM at virtualbox in Windows 11
The VM is Debian 11 (bulleye or something like that)
After installing (great!) and configure the resolution as it told here: https://www.ronaldtoussaint.nl/2018/...
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unlock gnome-keyring on login
Running debian testing, no display manager, i3 window manager.
gnome-keyring & libpam-gnome-keyring packages are installed. Added following 2 lines to end of /etc/pam.d/login:
auth optional ...
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condition in .xinitrc not satisfied, don't know why
I have a condition in .xinitrc that is not met, and I don't understand why:
I have the .Xresources file in my ~ (with read permissions), and my ~/.xinitrc contains a line with
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] &...
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xinitrc seems to not run some commands
I am new to Arch and did a fresh install.
I have configured it to use dwm and I start it with startx. The problem is that some commands in xinitrc seem to not run. It clearly works to some extend, ...
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startx inconsistent behavior
I have a SSH server that is responsible for running dwm binary through X forwarding, on my client computer, i have a shell script that replaces the dwm binary on /usr/local/bin, inside that script, i ...
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Not able to open display on a headless docker container, but can on the host
I'm working on a headless system, and trying to emulate a display (specifically so I can render headless with blender, but the problem is more fundamental).
I'm simulating a login to create the X ...
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Shell script to shutdown system after running xinit command?
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W running Raspberry OS Lite (based on Debian 11 Bullseye, no desktop environment) that runs a startup shell script after an automatic login. The script uses the xinit ...
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How is i3 window manager started by startx in Ubuntu (so that I can configure what display it appears on)?
I want to set up i3 automatically start on a specific one of my three screens (all connected to one Nvidia card). This has proved more difficult than expected.
My first choice was to just set that ...
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evince is slow to open
Ever since I updated debian, evince has been slow to startup - it takes about half a minute. Once it is open, it works fine, its just slow to open. It never used to take that long - it just used to ...
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How can I change the location of .xinitrc and .zsh* files
I want to change the location of .xinitrc, .zshrc and .zshenv to ~/.config/x/xinitrc, ~/.config/zsh/zshrc and ~/.config/zsh/zshenv, but without simlinking them.
How can I achieve this? Do I have to ...
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.XResources are not loaded automatically. - Where should I put my xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources initialisation?
I added an .Xresources file to my home directory and when I load it from my shell prompt with xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources the resource settings are recognized (for X programs started afterwards).
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What script to put xrandr command in for automatic execution on login
What automatically executed script (~/.xinitrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc) is the best place to put a call to xrandr to set the correct refresh rate for my monitor on login?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, and ...
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XDM stuck on login prompt
I've recently attempted experimentation with Arch Linux, and have managed to get an install with basic utilities, a network manager, etc going. I plan to use the Openbox window manager, with (at least,...
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dwmblocks not reading $PATH
I'm using archlinux, dwm and dwmblocks. At startup dwmblocks shows only the icons of the blocks', without loading the scripts output. If I run
$ killall dwmblocks
and restart
$ dwmblocks &
it ...
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Is there a preference rule for exec in xinitrc?
I have i3 installed as my primary window manager; now I want to test dwm. My xinitrc has only one line: exec i3. If I want dwm to launch and not i3 do I have to delete this line completely or do I ...
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Forward X11 through SSH and open GUI applications from tty
If I'm on the tty cli with no desktop environment set up, how can I start a remote desktop environment through ssh?
For exmaple, if I first launch startx icewm and from there do a ssh -X me@raspi ...
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.xinitrc seems to be ignored if /usr/bin/xinit is called from systemd service
This is on Xubuntu 18.04.
I'm trying to replace lightdm with my own application running full screen on boot up.
I can run xinit from root shell, and it correctly takes my /root/.xinitrc commands and ...
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Dual Display - one is fine, the other showing squashed in left half of the screen
I have a Debian linux box set up with two displays.
One is from Display Port (DP) on the box through an active adapter to DVI input on the display itself.
The other is straight VGA to VGA.. This is ...
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Executing commands from process substitution in xinitrc
I felt that an .xinitrc like this
#!/bin/sh
bash <(sed -n 'H
/^exec ./{
x
s/\([^\n]\+ &\n\)*exec .*//
p
}' /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc)
xmonad &
# ...
exec xterm
where ...
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How to manually run/init/start a Xorg server on a different VT/TTY?
I want to start an Xorg server (which should only feature a minimal xterm terminal emulator from a newly created "pristine" tty). I have thought this to be as simple as issuing a xinit or ...
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Populating .Xauthority file when DISPLAY and HOST variables are non-existent
I just installed the new Debian 10 Buster and I am not satisfied. I installed it without any desktop. Only basic system utilities were installed during the initial install.
After reboot I signed in ...
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How rotate Xorg on demand with xinit?
I can physically swing around my monitor one right angle. On the console I can control orientation with the rotate_all "button" in /sys/devices/.../fbcon/. But xorg is not impressesed by that. Now I ...
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Trouble with Teamviewer, X and Window manager on headless server
What I need to achieve is this:
Run Teamviewer host on Ubuntu headless server CLI
Increase the resolution to something workable
Open a browser on the server through TV without installing a complete ...
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X11: ^C drop to shell while start X
I use xinit to start X with wm - startx command that using .xinitrc to invoke X11 environment, but when X starts, there a black screen with cursor staying there for few seconds before X is fully ...
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Starting just an X server on a minimal installation
I need to run a program that I haven't developed, the issue is that even if it doesn't run any GUI interface (can be used on silent mode) it still requires an X server running because of the way it's ...
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Arch linux greeter without DM
I'm using Arch Linux with i3wm with xinit which results in having tty1 as my "greeter".
I wanna know if there is any possibility to have a greeter, for instance, Deepin greeter at login prompt ...
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pywal wont run on startx
I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc
Currently my .xinitrc is:
exec dwm
wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" &
Anyone know what I could have messed up?
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Xinit/zsh: jobs control
In .xinitrc, there'll have multiple lines with & to put some commands in background, I'd like to control if a command is completed or not before process to next command.
I use zsh in .xinitrc ...
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how to load an xmodmap configuration file using .xinitrc
I am trying to figure out how to use my .xinitrc file to load an xmodmap configuration file. Although this seems to be a popular problem around the internet, I can't seem to get it working. I am ...
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Configure XFCE startup commands in NixOS
In NixOS, services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.extraSessionCommands describes "Shell commands executed just before XFCE is started.". What about for shell commands right after XFCE is started?
That ...
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xinitrc - set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
Not using display manager and executing startup logic via xinitrc.
Problem is some dbus-related env variables are not set.
xinitrc excerpt:
dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd --all # note ...
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Start X Server on Login with Systemd
I know that this is not the normal way people use X. Most setup instructions tell you to put something like startx in your shell's profile. However I want to have systemd manage things.
Ideally I ...
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start wmii from ~/.xinitrc
What is the right way to start wmii window manager from ~/.xinitrc? I put exec wmii however it doesn't seem to pick up configuration.
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startxfce4 no longer loads on Asus chromebook
I have an Acer chromebook that I used to be able to load into xfce via "shell" then "sudo startxfce4" at the chrome terminal. Suddenly it fails and will no longer load. Instead, I get the following. ...
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Arch Linux: Running VirtualBox (VM) without a window manager
In Arch Linux, I would like to run VirtualBox without a window manager.
As a root I can easily do:
xinit /usr/bin/VirtualBox -- :0 vt1
As a non-root user I get a blank screen. If I open another ...
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LXQt works perfectly on a fresh Arch install then only get a black screen after rebooting
LXQt works perfectly after a fresh Arch install on my laptop, then I reboot, and without changing anything, simply logging in as the same user from before, running startx like before, instead of lxqt ...
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My ubuntu-server doesn't execute my gtk-based program at startup!
I have Ubuntu-server 16.04. Installed gtk3 and can execute my program manually by this command: ./img when I go to it's directory /home/m.
But when I tried to add this line to my /etc/rc.local file:
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Screen resolution in X windows different from command line
I have a raspberry pi zero and I'm running Jessie lite (very similar to ubuntu distros). I'm using my pi to run a MagicMirror. Everything runs correctly but X windows does not take up the whole screen....
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How can I find which process is controlling the root window?
I'm trying to get an xscreensaver to run as my desktop background / wallpaper using the method described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XScreenSaver#Animated_wallpaper and the first step ...
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Set up display orientation and resolution on an embedded Linux
we have an embedded PC with an Linux OS which seems to be an Debian/Ubuntu derivate with RT-Preempt patch.
At this pc we attached a display (7" 1024x600 170 DPI) via DVI. We are need to run the ...
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How to make several "startx" profiles?
I have an Arch Linux with i3wm now. When I need to start my i3, I just type startx, because in config file I have exec i3;. When I need to run some another graphical environment, such as Gnome, I edit ...
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.xinitrc not loading .Xresources [closed]
I'm using fresh install of Arch with i3; after logging into I type in startx and i3 is starting with default settings, despite the configuration of my .xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
exec i3
exec xrdb ~/....
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