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Is there software that allows multiple users to simultaneously and independently share a personal computer running Mac Os?
Like BeTwin. For example, I have Macbook Pro with one Mini DisplayPort (for additional monitor) and two USB port (for additional mouse and keyboard).
How can i implement it on Mac OS Snow Leopard?
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Where to get X11 for OS X 10.6 without the installation CD?
In order to get GIMP working on OS X I'm told to install X11 from CD. Unfortunately I don't have such a CD. Is there an other way to get X11 working for OS X?
If I start GIMP I do get the following ...
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Binding Super+C Super+V to Copy and Paste
For some time I've been interested in binding the Windows Key (Super_L) on my keyboard to Copy and Paste for no other reason but convenience and consistency between my desktop and my MacBook.
I ...
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Detecting currently active window
The linux commandline tool wmctrl allows you to list all windows, or all desktops, among other things. In the desktop-listing mode, the current desktop is marked with an asterisk.
I need a tool that ...
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Turn off anti-aliasing in Lubuntu
I have an X setup with XMing on Windows 7 as X the server and X clients (for example lxterminal) started on a Lubuntu 11.10 running in a VirtualBox VM. This works well, but I don't really like the ...
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I've just deleted my /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols directory and restarted, how come I can still type? (X-post from Unix Excha [closed]
I'm running Linux Mint and I'm trying to edit my symbol files but none of the changes stick - I've tried restarting X and restarting the computer. Eventually I got frustrated and tried deleting the ...
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XRDP errors when trying to use sesman-x11rdp
I've just installed Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop on an old laptop of mine and I wanted to set it up so I could remote into it from my windows desktop. I've installed XRDP, but when I attempt to login using ...
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Mac OS X: Icons for X11 windows
X11 windowing system allows setting per-window icons to be used when the window is minimized. It is odd that Xquartz / X11.app on OS X doesn't use this icon, substituting it for its default "X" icon.
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Disabling xbindkeys for specific applications?
Under Ubuntu, I use a great little utility called xbindkeys to set up system-wide keyboard shortcuts. I have lots of useful shortcuts in it, however, I often want to disable the shortcuts when I'm ...
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Why is my keyboard mapping wrong with Xming, Lubuntu in VirtualBox and Putty?
I am running Lubuntu in a VirtualBox guest on a Windows 7 host.
I have started the X server XMing on the host.
I use Putty with X-forwarding to ssh into the guest and use it to start lxterminal.
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Mapping keys on Linux
I'd like to change layout (mapping) of Lenovo ThinkPad keyboard (which I hate)
to be like Acer TravelMate 8000 (which I love).
That mainly means:
Swap Fn and left Ctrl
Tab-left to act like PgUp
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Using AutoHotKey to enter the unicode symbols on Windows 7
I'm bilingual user and while writing I use mostly UK keyboard I have this layout set into my computer. However occasionally I want to write something in my native tongue and the math symbols are ...
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Remap Command Key When Using Remote X11 Application On Mac
I have a Redhat application that I run on my OSX desktop via a remote X11 session. Everything works fine except keyboard shortcuts. I can copy with Command C but I have to use Control P rather than ...
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Hibernating a Debian machine?
I have a Vostro 1000, and am running Debian Squeeze. When I hibernate from GNOME, the screen bleeds before shutting down, and upon starting up it bleeds to start up.
Is this normal and expected ...
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I'm looking for GNOME PING Panel
Is there a way to somehow use GNOME's panel to ping some IP and get some sort of status (alive/dead)?
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Space as modifier key XKB
Background:
Ultimately, I'm trying to set up a custom one handed keyboard layout similar to this demo(click one-handed typing demo).
XKB is used in many linux distros. Wikipedia has a decent ...
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Automatically change layout depending on keyboard being used [closed]
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Separate keyboard for shortcuts on linux (two keyboards,two layouts)
I have a laptop with a US layout and an external keyboard with a Spanish layout. Is it possible to ...
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Bind a bluetooth device to a specific Xorg server session and not the other?
I have two X server sessions: one bound to my desktop monitor and one bound to my TV. They are each bound to separate video cards.
Since the application on the TV will be controlled only by a ...
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Debian upgrade x11-common error
I upgraded my Debian but I'm getting an error. How can I go around this problem?
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up x11-common (1:7.6+8~bpo60+1) ...
Template parse error near ...
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Display remote X session (complete desktop) in one client X window
Situation: From Windows I connect to a remote Linux using putty with X11 port forwarding. Xming is able to display the desktop session in ONE Windows window.
If I connect from Linux with "ssh -Y ...
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X11.app (on SnowLeopard) won't start
Today I discovered that X11.app no longer works on my Mac. I'm not sure when this happened. I think it's been several weeks since I last used an X11 application.
By "no longer works" I mean it does ...
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Xorg - FVWM - Dual Monitors connected to same display independently
I am using Slackware Linux 13.37 with FVMW2 as my window manager.
I have a pair of monitors that are different physical dimensions (a 21" widescreen, and a 19" standard display) which I use to do my ...
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How do you configure numpad keys using XKB?
I haven't figured out how you configure XKB to use the numpad yet. I found the following in the "us" file.
partial alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
name[Group1]= "USA";
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copy and paste tabs between terminal windows in X11
When I copy and paste text using the X11 mouse selection between two terminal windows, tabs are often, but not always, converted to spaces. This appears to depend on the involved terminal ...
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alt keys stopped working on X11, how to fix?
I'm running arch linux, latest stable with gnome3 and gdm, I have a US keyboard (notebook). I am using the default layout except that I used xkeybdmap to bind the right alt key to alt gr to get ...
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Command-Tab to X11.app in Mac OS X 10.6 doesn't focus X apps
If I have an application open in X11.app on Mac OS 10.6 and I switch away to another app and then back with Command-Tab, none of the X application come to the foreground.
How can I make this happen?
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ssh X-forwarding display problems
Recently a server that hosts some gui applications I run through ssh X forwarding from my local machine, was updated to Centos 6 and ever since then, I've had problems running some but not all ...
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Using xsplash in ubuntu lucid 10.04
Is there a way of using xsplash in ubuntu lucid 10.04? I know there's lots of information out there on the internet stating its impossible, but as we all know, nothing is impossible. If there's a ...
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SSH: launch GUI programs on remote screen, not X display
The problem
Most people want to connect to a server over ssh with the "-X" option in order to run GUI programs on the remote host using the display of the client. I would like to run GUI programs on ...
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quanta touchscreen misclick
I use quanta touchscreen:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0408:3001 Quanta Computer, Inc. Optical Touch Screen
OS: Debian Linux (Lenny/Squeeze)
Xorg: X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Issue: misclicks (can't complete ...
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How does a window manager register itself with the X Server?
I was wondering how the window manager registers itself with the X server, and how it knows what process to kill when it goes about replacing the current window manager
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Linux wallpaper change
I am looking for a tool that can resize images and display them on the root window of an X11 display at a specific coordinates. I can use display from iagemagick like so
display -window root ...
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Is there a way to make uzbl, or any arbitrary application, draw in the root window?
I was writing a system monitoring program and it occurred to me that a nifty hack would be to have the main page be someone's wallpaper, a sort of ambient monitoring program. With responsive web ...
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Linux: X11 is using up 50% of one of my CPUs and lagging terribly
I have been running my Ubuntu Linux Machine recently on powerful hardware (much more powerful
than my last machine at any rate) and I have noticed that after some time all of a sudden X11 starts
to ...
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Linux: Use NVIDIA and ATI cards in the same computer
I've got the following graphics cards installed in my computer:
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 4770 [RV740]
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ...
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Quit x11 after Wine is done?
Is it possible to make wine quit the X11 layer after all its processes are done?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.1 with Wine 1.3.26.
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NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-280.13.run screwed up my sound
I just installed nVidia GT440 w/ NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-280.13.run driver on my Scientific Linux on two of my workstation and one of workstation sound disappeared.
Both workstations are identical though ...
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How can I define a Hebrew/Latin layout + Compose Key in Mageia 2?
I'm on Mageia Linux Cauldron (what will become Mageia 2), where Mageia Linux
is a recent community fork of Mandriva Linux.
this script gives me the Xkb layout that I need:
#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap \
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terminal transparency, Imagemagick, and X11 root window problem
I use Ubuntu Natty, urxvt (with 256 colours), and Imagemagick (display -window root [...]) to set the root window to a picture. When I use the transparancy (-tr) option on urxvt, I get the Ubuntu X ...
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X11 libraries corrupted by VirtualBox crash
I have a computer running Debian "Squeeze" 6.0-AMD64 which experienced a VirtualBox crash during a folder copy via SCP yesterday and since then I'm not able to log in KDE. Which is more strange is ...
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How to choose automatic preferred resolution in Xorg-server
I am building a Linux Live-Distro.
My xorg.conf looks like this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "dpms" "off"
Option "dpms" "false"
DisplaySize ...
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Xauth/X11 ssh forwarding problem
When logging in with ssh -Y remotehost I get the following error message:
/usr/bin/xauth: /home/hlovdal/.Xauthority not writable, changes will
be ignored
And xclock and similar fails to ...
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putty and X11 forwarding
I think I do not understand what X11 forwarding setting in PuTTY does...
When SSH->X11 setting is unticked, but I specify the remote command "export DISPLAY=192.168.32.106:0.0; xterm" under SSH ...
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mintty ssh and using x-windows
This confuses me a lot and I have no clew at all.
I used mintty on Windows and ssh to a linux server. I can use X applications at the beginning, like gvim, emacs, etc.
However, after some amount of ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 Recent X11 Update Broke OpenGL
After installing the most recent X11 updates (using the update manager) it would appear that OpenGL support has vanished from my computer. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M graphics card, and have the ...
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How do I fix a “cannot open display” error when opening an X program after ssh'ing with X11 forwarding enabled?
After launching the X11 app (XQuartz 2.3.6, xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56) on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8), opening an terminal in X11 and running xhost +, I then ssh -Y to my Ubuntu 10.04 VM (running on VMware ...
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Is there any way to use the X Windows System on MS-Windows?
I want to learn the X Windows System (Don't Ask Me Why Or How). And I can't because I am using Windows XP.I have looked at a few X Servers and Emulators but they either aren't open-source , are in ...
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How to execute a command on X-session owned by another user?
Is possible (by root of course) to run a command from console, that will be executed on X-session owned by another user on the same linux box/machine ? Example: Can root open xclock for another local ...
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Linux: How to send message to local user logged into X11?
Is possible to send a message (popup window or something) to local user logged into X (xdm, fluxbox) from console ? For example: user1 is logged and using X/fluxbox, user2 logging into the same box by ...
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Touchpad sensitivity scales to virtual screen dimensions
I am experimenting with attaching a second monitor to my Ubuntu Natty laptop, and I have noticed an annoying "feature" that makes any multi-monitor setup so unusable that I actually prefer my ...
