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Use gnu-screen and X instead of desktop environment?
I have a HTPC with Debian currently installed on. I would like to run applications which got a gui but without using a desktop environment such as gnome, kde etc.
I was wondering if running X would ...
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Trying to start a GUI process on a second machine
Background:
I am helping out create a media wall from spare computers/screens for a local university to use processing.org/java to distribute renders across several machines.
However, it's still ...
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Understanding X Windows DISPLAY environment variable when tunnelling
I want to ssh to remote servers, both running CentOS with X11Forwarding enabled.
However the X application cannot run properly on one of them - on host B it works fine. But on host A I get the error ...
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what's my xorg version?
ATI docs says i need:
XOrg 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6
Xorg -version says:
X.Org X Server 1.11.1.902(1.11.2 RC 2)
[...]
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[...]
xorg-server ...
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XWindows-like mouse behaviour in Windows 7
I currently use Linux as my primary desktop OS, and have done for more years than I care to remember. In recent years I've settled on GNOME and XFCE as my environments of choice.
For a number of ...
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Configure X connections over TCP without using an X connection
I want to run a GUI application on a remote machine I only have ssh access to. I don't need to, or want to, see the GUI window. (I know I could use something like ssh -C -X remote_server if I wanted ...
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Start normal user's instance of X app in Linux as root
So, here's what I'd really love to do. My Arch Linux laptop is put to sleep with the help of pm-utils, some X apps (transmission, banshee, etc.) need to be manually shutdown (via script in ...
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Is it possible (and if so, how) to have a terminal open on x-screen 1, execute a command on that terminal, and have an application open on screen 2?
Let's say you have two monitors hooked up to the same machine, running gnome (let's call them 'A' and 'B'). Each has its own, independent x-screen.
Our goal is to type a command into a terminal on ...
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How to disable scheduled sleep warning in Mac OS X Lion?
I'm creating a kiosk. Would like it to sleep at night and wake in the morning. I know about auto sleep in System Preferences > Energy Saver.
Trouble is, the Mac puts up a dialog box before sleeping ...
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What XMonad Configuration Best Replicates Default Ion3 Behavior and Feature Set?
Not being very familiar with Haskell and lamenting that Ion 3 is now abandonware, I am curious if anyone out there has found a way of replicating the default Ion 3 behavior and aesthetics in XMonad. ...
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Dropped ssh/X session, how to pickup where left off?
I am VPN from a Linux box to another. I log in to the other box with ssh -X. I open an X window/program in an attempt to do a software installation. The painful truth is that this software cannot be ...
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X keymap editor?
Does anyone know of a reasonably easy-to-use X keymap editor?
I have an exotic laptop with a non-standard keyboard (a Toshiba AC100, for what it's worth). I would like this to have a keymap that ...
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X Session from Mac
How can I log into an X server from Mac OS X? I know that ssh -X username@host will log me in and I will have the capability to run X applications.
On Cygwin/X you can log in and have a whole X ...
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How to get back the control of the screen/keyboard on my Linux system
I have a Linux system running (Debian). It is working perfectly from a remote point of view. I can ssh in it, it has the imap running correctly, and a couple of kvm systems running (I can also ssh to ...
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freebsd post-installation issues
I've installed freeBSD 8.2 and now trying to get GUI working. I did install KDE and related packages from sysinstall.
On bootup, at shell prompt, when I do X or Xorg, screen goes blank and I cannot ...
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Different behavior under Xvfb and under a real X server / Xvfb alternatives?
I am trying to run a program (Ansys 13 Workbench) that requires a display in batch on a torque managed linux cluster. Running it as an interactive job with X forawrding to my local linux machine ...
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How can I relax the X security constraints for the jenkins daemon?
It works fine on the commandline, when I do
xhost +
su - jenkins
emulator -avd myAVD.avd
but
emulator -avd myAVD.avd
executed by jenkins daemon fails with
"SDL init failure: No ...
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How do I display the source machine during a remote x session in the title bar?
In the past, when I open a gvim session on a remote machine, the title bar of gvim would show the machine name in brackets. I am not sure if this was done by the remote gvim itself, or the local ...
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OSX remote X app
Right now at work I have an Ubuntu workstation and I'm considering switching over to OSX but I have one major concern. I run Eclipse on our Ubuntu development server using a remote X session: ...
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Changing the Parallels menubar icon?
Is it possible to change the Parallels menubar icon from the red icon to a black and white version?
I already know how to change the actual dock icons, but I'd like all the menubar icons to be a ...
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Why do fonts in xterm seem too big in OS X?
I am using xterm on OS X 10.5. If I do:
xterm -fa "Monaco" -fs 10
it creates a xterm with much bigger fonts than Terminal.app w/ Monaco 10 point font. In fact, I have to downsize xterm to -fs 8 ...
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X equivalent of 'screen' utility
Under unix/linux, there is this extremely useful program screen: it's for bash, text-only, and I can detach a session, log out (the session is still running though), log in later (even from a ...
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Multimonitor setup with hotplugging using Linux
I've already been able to configure my desktop to use all three monitors under Linux, however I've begun using one of my monitors on a KVM for an extra development machine.
The main problem is that ...
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Swapping special keys
I am on archlinux and trying to swap the left Alt key with the left Ctrl key for my convenience in emacs as well as bash command line editing. I use the following ~/.xmodmap:
remove mod1 = Alt_L
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Parallels Network Setup — Localhost goes to host computer
I've got a local webapp that runs via Tomcast and Eclipse. Big chunks of it don't function well or properly when not accessing them from the localhost domain (for security reasons I am assuming, not ...
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How can I export Mac OS (v10.6) Share Points?
I've rebuilt a server, exported/imported AFP settings but share points do not appear to be included in the export. Is there a way to export share points? I guess they should be kept in a plist file ...
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remotely startx over ssh
I am using some software that uses CUDA to run some stuff on the GPU.
If I am using ssh to connect to the box, or vnc even, and I try to run the program I get an error that no CUDA device is ...
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Linux: How to apply ICC profile to whole desktop?
I have a monitor with oversaturated red (HP LP2475w). I am able to apply ICC profile to various apps like GIMP and Firefox and Gnome.
But I'd like to apply it to everything - because e.g. Flash ...
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How to fit an application onto the screen with proper size?
I'm running Ubuntu server, and I've installed X and Chromium, which both start on login.
However Chromium doesn't fit on the screen properly. I've found several fixes for people who have a window ...
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Gnome: run program w/o window decorations
I'd like to run RealVNC 3.3.7 without window decorations without using the -fullscreen option. My system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 running GNOME. Is this an Xt option, a Metacity option, a GTK ...
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How to use nvidia-xconfig with 2 GPUs and one is not NVidia?
I have a cluster of machines running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS that are equipped with two graphic cards, a NVidia GeForce GT 240 (secondary) and a Matrox one (primary). Because it just seems to ignore the ...
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Is the field BusID necessary in XF86Config?
I am using a cluster of machines running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which are supposed to be homogeneous, but apparently they are not. In particular, I am configuring the X server on these machines, and I ...
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Old X program looks 'bleached'
I installed surf (algebraic geometry drawing app) on Fedora 14 from source. When I run it, it looks 'bleached', that is the window is half-transparent and I almost can't see anything (certainly not ...
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Invert Mouse on Second Display (Linux)
I've concluded that I cannot run portrait video with the version of X and ATI drivers I have (see my previous question).
Alternatively, is it possible to physically run a display in portrait (X still ...
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How can I make my Super keys (Windows Key) behave more like Ctrl/Alt/Shift in Linux
After using the Ctrl + "arrow keys" for 13 years to switch virtual desktops in X windows, I've been convinced recently to change to using the Super keys instead (the windows key and the context menu ...
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Use Super+arrows as PgUp/PgDown/HomeEnd (in Linux, at least) / hotkey rebind
What would be a better way to use Win+arrows combination as aliases for some other keys?
With using hotkey + input simulation, the problem is that modifier is usually still held down when key hit is ...
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How do I diagnose KDE logon problem?
I have just installed the Linux distro Pardus, with its KDE desktop. I already had a home directory(on a separate /home) partition so I just created the user and tried to logon.
The problem is, when I ...
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bashrc: how to know X window is available or not?
There is a part in my ~/.bashrc, which sets $EDITOR to be gvim. It works fine when I am in X window. However, if I ssh to my workstation (from another workstation) gvim starts to complain "cannot open ...
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Solution for using X and Windows over Internet?
Hardware:
Macbook air as local in-hands computer, connected at home over 802.11G->Verizon FIOS 15mbit down/5mbit up fiber. Also sometimes from other connections fast (university) and slow (hotels ...
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Keeping Xv Overlay configuration throughout an X session
After upgrading my Linux system from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 10.10, I suceeded correcting most problems (all related to Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Adapter support and compiz is still not working ...
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Recover an application in sleeping state after an X server crash
I often run calculations on my Linux computer, which cause my X server to crash from time to time. Almost always, some programs seem to survive to the crash and are in an interruptible sleeping state, ...
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Problem starting X in unbuntu 10.10
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my old toshiba a100 (where I've been running XP with no problems for ages). The installation went fine, I can log in with my user account, but after that the ...
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x command line utility?
What is the use of x command line utility? What are the features of x command line utility and how is it different ffrom SSH utility?
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In gnome, how can I configure the definition of “full screen” to make large VNC windows behave nicely on a dual screen setup?
In my corporate environment, I'm required to run a Windows machine that acquires a VNC session on a machine in the server farm. My windows machine is dual head with different resolution monitors ( ...
