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gnu screen losing DISPLAY connection
I ssh tunnel into a remote desktop running Ubuntu via a terminal - and use gnu screen
to do my work there. I have enabled X11 forwarding in my ssh config for the use
of X11 applications launched from ...
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Dual screen setup in Xorg
I have two Nvidia cards (an onboard and an added one), and a monitor connected to each one. Monitors are "on", at least the LEDs indicates that they are. But only the one connected to the onboard card ...
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Openbox fails on login
X throws this error:
Xsession: unable to launch "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" Xsession
--- "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" not found; Falling back to
default session.
But a trip ...
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Command line tool to adjust X server settings while running
Is there a command line tool that allows you to adjust the settings for a running X session?
For example, the equivalent for pulseaudio would be the pacmd command line utility which allows you to ...
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Use a gamepad as joystick in Linux
Recently i discovered my gamepad was actick like the mouse in mu Linux Mint 13 Maya. It was really cool feature but It's not what i need all the time.
I fix it ...
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How to force 640*480@60Hz screen resolution on xubuntu 12.04
It seems xubuntu won't be able to correctly set resolution at 640*480@60Hz at its Display settings. And I am unable to correctly my super small 6.4 inch Mitsubishi VGA panel via VGA cable.
I have ...
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Displaying X11/Xorg settings to check if they have been set correctly
I used to use Xfce exclusively and am now using xmonad, which I love.
However, now I need to set some things myself.
Like font aliasing and hinting, etc.
Xfce stores font settings in ...
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No Screens Found Arch Linux Startx Error
When attempting to startx in Arch Linux the error:
Fatal Server error: no screens found
is displayed. Is there a way to fix this error?
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Force GTK/Gnome theme for X application
I want to force pure X application to use GTK/Gnome theme. Is it possible? I'm using cygwin and cygwin/X.
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Howto disable resizing of existing window with X11?
I have to disable window resize possibility of an existing program (not mine, so I cannot modify source to fix it). The program can be started on different window managers, so the solution cannot be ...
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howto set WM_NORMAL_HINTS with xprop?
In the man I see that it is possible to set window property with xprop, but I cannot figure out howto set WM_NORMAL_HINTS property?
How I should do this?
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Pulseaudio Daemon Startup Failed
When running startx on Arch Linux, the error:
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
is returned.
Is there any way to fix this error?
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Is it possible to run mac osx apps on a X11 server?
I can successfully open a ssh -X connection from host.home to host.work (both Mac OS X).
X11 is running on host.home. When I start xterm or xeyes on host.work I see it on host.home, but if I start ...
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Make nautilus not show desktop via SSH
Most of the days I am connected to my home server (running Debian) via a ssh shell from my laptop. Most of the tasks are done in the prompt, but sometimes I like to have drag-and-drop-file managers, ...
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avoid X11 forwarding from Mac to linux
I need to run a program on Mac remotely via ssh from a linux machine. The funny thing about the program is that it has a command line interface, but it always creates a GUI window, even if this is not ...
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Extend Desktop to Monitor over LAN
I want to make use of an old laptop by extending my the desktop from my main PC onto the monitor of this other, old laptop over a LAN connection.
I've looked into Xdmx/dmx, but the project seems to ...
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How do you catch and change keyboard characters with python?
I wanted to make silly custom keyboards, that would translate keystrokes to equivalents in silly alphabets (leetspeek, Cyrillic transliterations, upside-down characters..), but that turned out to be ...
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How can I find out a list of all configuration files loaded by Xorg?
There's a lot of lists of places where these files can be found, but can I see the actual list of what is loaded?
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Is the X Server refresh rate same as the monitor refresh rate?
Is the refresh rate that we set using monitor properties ( in say ubuntu) the actual number of times X will refresh the screen in 1 second ? Or is it just some configuration of the hardware and has ...
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emacs won't start due to “No fonts match `Inconsolata-12'”
Several weeks ago, I tried to customize my default font face Emacs 21.4.1 running on CentOS 5.5, and now emacs won't start.
emacs will start with the -fn flag. However, I can't find where ...
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Cannot set keyboard layouts and options from xorg.conf
This is a revamp of the older question:
How do I configure keyboard layouts in Ubuntu 12.04?
Since then I accumulated new data (in particular, I learned that Ubuntu doesn't use HAL now).
The problem ...
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How do I configure keyboard layouts in Ubuntu 12.04?
Ubuntu has moved to HAL, and commented out the keyboard section in xorg.conf. This means that GNOME keyboard layout tool no longer works outside of GNOME (I don't remember if it did before, but the ...
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How to make Elo touchscreen working for Linux?
Elo touchscreen model:
Elo TouchSystems, Inc. Elo TouchSystems 2700 IntelliTouch(r)
Problem description:
My problem + others problem with this is that, when i touch-over (mouse-over) the ...
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Xauthority hosed vim's ability to connect to Xserver
I recently tried to move .Xauthority away from ~/.Xauthority in a futile attempt to clean up my home directory. Or, rather, I set $XAUTHORITY to somewhere else, changed startx to startx -- -auth ...
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Dissappearing those pesky .x* config files
I'm trying to force as many of my dotfiles as possible to honor $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (and friends) instead of crapping all over my home directory. This involves some minor tweaks to some common apps, but ...
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x11 GNOME theme - look and feel of Apple OS X [closed]
I'm using GNOME that came w/:
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 Desktop]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon)
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 Desktop]$
and I was wondering if I can make Apple OS ...
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How to spawn a terminal when executing a compiled C program?
I've overwritten the gnome-screenshot program to suit my needs in getting a screenshot from a secondary home-made graphics card output and now when I press the PrintScreen button it executes it (as ...
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Send bitmap screen output directly to a file
The question Linux program for HTML/JS wallpaper got me thinking... is there a way to open an application so that the raster output which would otherwise be displayed on the screen is rendered as a ...
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How to get x11vnc to run at startup on openSuSE 12.1
I'm trying to get x11vnc to run at startup with openSuse but not having much luck. Here's what I did so far.
I edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup and added the following lines to the end, right before exit ...
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FVWM - Split Desktop into Multiple Virtual Desktops
I have a Linux virtual machine running within VMware Fusion 3.
I have a dual monitor setup that runs thanks to the "vmware-user" application which enables both monitors as a single large display.
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x server insecure must use xauth-style authorization
I'm rehosting a TCL/TK app from Solaris to a RHEL 6 sytem (GNOME/gdm). It runs fine on Solaris, but not RHEL. When this app uses send command, I get the following error:
X server insecure (must use ...
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dual screen won't work / ubuntu 10.04
I have an old computer, on which i'm running Ubuntu 10.04.
It has a graphical chipset built in the motherboard (Intel) but has some PCI slots.
I added a ATI Radeon 9200 graphical card, in order to use ...
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VMWare Workstation 8.0.2 + Ubuntu 11.10 -> Windows tearing, strange glitch
I have installed an Ubuntu guest (11.10), on a Windows 7 x64 SP1 host, using VMWare Workstation. Then I fired up vmware-tools on the guest, everything went fine.
But every now and then, the strange ...
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Linux guest under VMWare - Literally HUGE fonts in some applications and situations
So I have installed a Linux guest (Ubuntu 12.04 alternate with expert install), for development. (Easier than keeping around cygwin and stuff.)
But it happens, that some windows come up with huge ...
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split window and rearange parts on screen
I have third party application with the native resolution of 1600x600. What I need is to display first 800x600 half of the window below the second 800x600 part of the window.
This wasn't problem as ...
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Linux convert jpeg to bmp, xsetroot complains “bad bitmap format”, how to fix this?
I am creating a JPEG file, converting to BMP then using with xsetroot, but that is failing.
1) Make a JPEG file
$ convert -size 800x600 xc:transparent \
-font Bookman-DemiItalic -pointsize ...
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X11 on CentOS VM with OS X Lion client
I am using OS X Lion. I have a Vagrant box running CentOS 6.0 minimal on my mac. I am trying to install Oracle 10g on my CentOS 6. I keep getting an error
Can't connect to X11 window server
I have ...
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Debian, can't find X11 configuration files Imake.rules and Imake.tmpl
I'm installing program on debian image in wmware and during installation it asked for X11 configuration files Imake.rules and Imake.tmpl. I searched /etc/X11 - it's not there and also /usr/lib/X11 - ...
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How to make Linux use the proper diplay driver? How to prioritize the drivers?
So, there are 2 GPUs in my laptop. An Intel one, and an ATI one. The Intel comes with a nice open-source driver, which works OOTB. The ATI one needs the proprietary driver, to function properly (like ...
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Key repeat X11 xterm & urxvt
I've been trying to get an xmonad development environment setup on my OS X box for a little while right now. I have OS wide key repeating enabled and it's working in other apps, however when I hold ...
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Maximize Xorg/X11 compatibility for live CD
Given a Linux live CD in an environment where enough RAM is assumed to be available, what configuration maximizes the compatibility of the X window system?
I have a Linux Live CD based off of SliTaz ...
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Using 2 video cards and 3 monitors
Im trying to get 3 screens working, one on my onboard AMD HD4200 and 2 on my Nvidia GT 430. I am getting 2 screens working, but I X is giving me an error. It says "Screen 1 was deleted because of no ...
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X server not starting up after new kernel compilation
I have compiled the Kernel on my 64-bit Debian XPS Studio 1340 Dell system.
srikanth@debian:~ - 05:40:52 PM - $ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 17:26:33 UTC 2012 x86_64 ...
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Modify PATH variable for X11 during log-in
I am working on some lab computers (read: no administrative rights) that, if I log in, I need to change the PATH variable as X11 starts. The reason is that I need to change the PATH variable at this ...
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enabling sticky keys under xorg (awesome desktop manager)
I would like to enable "sticky modifier keys" under archlinux + awesome, and I haven't found the correct info.
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Install xorg in Arch Linux
I am trying to install Xorg on my Arch Linux VM, what I have done so far:
edited /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and uncommented my country mirror
dhcpcd eth0
pacman -Syy
pacman -S xorg-server, which also ...
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renice-ing Xorg for slow computers; will I expect an increase in responsiveness?
I love my netbook, but unfortunately it can struggle to perform under a heavy load. Changing windows, moving the mouse etc can have considerable lag. If I set the nice value on Xorg to default to ...
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X Graphical Shell Not Working
I'm having a problem with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install, the X graphical interface was working great, but the grub boot menu and virtual console was not, I'd get a monitor out of range error.
I went ...
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“ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse Receiver” wheel-click is wrong
I use this mouse under archlinux x86_64 with 3.2.8-1-ARCH kernel.
I have some problems to select and then paste with the wheel-click in some applications like konversation, not in a terminal nor an ...
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Xinerama creates a panning viewport
EDIT: I've created a bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48458
My Setup
I have 4 monitors, 1920x1080, which are in portrait mode (rotated left). They are connected to two ...
