X.Org Server (commonly abbreviated to Xorg Server, XServer or just Xorg) refers to the X server release packages stewarded by the X.Org Foundation, which is hosted by freedesktop.org, and grants public access to the standard X Window releases for the efforts of the free and open source software ...
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Octave on Remote Server
When I run plot commands eg.(plot(rand(1,10))). I get the following error.
PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authorisation protocol attemptedPuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authorisation protocol attemptedPuTTY X11 ...
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left click logging off session- FC17
I am using FC-17 kernel 3.8.12-100 on an Asus k55vm laptop.
All of a sudden my left touchpad click is causing the session to log off without any notification. Initially I thought that it might be ...
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Keep GUI app running after vncserver shutdown
I am trying to do the following:
Connect through SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance
Start a VNC server
Connect through VNC
Start a GUI application and log in
Kill the VNC server but keep the GUI ...
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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the following ...
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aticonfig Dual Monitors CentOS 6.4 Radeon 3650
I just loaded centOS on my laptop (Lenovo W500) which has a Radeon HD 3650 graphics card onboard. I cannot get my second monitor to work at all. Upon boot, since my /home directory is encrypted it ...
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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the following ...
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XFCE/X11: Keyboard layout changes overnight, special symbols can not be entered
A very weird problem
After work, I lock my screen and go home
The morning after, my keyboard layout has changed from de_CH to en_US
At random times, my urxvt-tabbed windows don't accept special ...
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Mouse pointer missing in SSH windows
I have a problem with the mouse pointer when I use SSH to launch a remote window.
I run ssh -CY somehost and then run some command that opens a new window. When the mouse pointer enters that new ...
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Keyboard LEDs not working in X11 but on terminal
I have a QPAD MK85 Keyboard and my num, caps and scroll lock LEDs are not working. When i switch to a terminal with strg + alt + F1 the LEDs are working fine. However, when i switch back to X11 (KDE) ...
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What does the xfce4 power manager in the presentation mode
What exactly does the xfce4-power-manager if I press the button for presentation mode?
Is it called X function? Or what else?
Any ideas?
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How do I get X11 Forwarding to work on Windows with PuTTY and Xming?
I've always wanted to get X11 Forwarding to work with PuTTY, and the X Window System I'm using is Xming. When I have Xming running and I establish a new connection to my server, I receive the ...
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Emacs (display-buffer) in frames on current desktop
When using an emacs command that uses display-buffer (e.g. following an error from compile-mode, calling list-buffers, etc.), if the buffer is open in another frame, it doesn't open in a window in the ...
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X freezes after typing OFF to vgaswitcheroo
I've go really big problem with vgaswitcheroo and Xorg on my laptop (acer timeline X 5820GT).
When I turn off graphic card (by echoing OFF to vgaswitcheroo) everything is fine, but when I change tty ...
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Compiling OpenJDK 7 without X
I am trying to compile OpenJDK 7 on a headless RHEL server. I have no desire to install a bunch of miscellaneous X dependencies just to build it.
Is there any way to compile OpenJDK 7 without ...
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Set X11 screen resolution with xrandr
It's been a while since I've needed to use xrandr. I remember being able to just use -s# to specify which configuration you wanted to apply for example if I had:
CRT1 connected 1400x1050+0+0 (normal ...
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Enable external monitors on W520 laptop running CentOS 6.4
Has anyone done this? I've googled around for hours but no luck. Some suggest to change the BIOS "Display" settings (to "integrated" or some other value), others suggest to use xrandr, others say add ...
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Why does my GUI start on tty8 and not tty7?
I can't seem to find other accounts or any information on this. All I can provide is a brief description of the situation.
I use the ttys because they are very powerful and fast, and I recently ...
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Fixing MTRR error in Linux
I am getting this error is Backtrack 5 R3 using KDE,
Error setting MTRR (base=0x80000000 size=0x10000000 type = 1 inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
Here is the X server log
and here is my MTRR ...
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Gnome sending keyboard shortcuts to an application
I would like to send key board shortcuts from my wm (gnome) to an application (specifically Emacs).
for example If I press Some-prefix-key C-x C-s then I would like C-x C-s to be passed to Emacs ...
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How to add noDRI to xorg.conf.d
I am about to get a tutorial for power-optimizations for my x200 done.
But I am failing to succeed at this line:
Just insert: Option "NoDRI" to the "Device" section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This ...
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Apple keyboard mapping on Ubuntu KDE
I want to configure the Apple keyboard mapping on dell precision notebook keyboard on Ubuntu KDE such that alt-> win, ctrl->alt, fn -> ctrl.
That means i want to make the dell precision notebook ...
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Local display using Xming-Putty
I've been struggling with Xming and putty for a while and I can't make it work; I enabled X11 forwarding in putty, updated xauth list on the client side with the xauth list of the server side.
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Local display using Xming-Putty
I've been struggling with Xming and putty for a while and I can't make it work;
I enabled X11 forwarding in putty, updated xauth list on the client side with the xauth list of the server side.
...
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How to use Gnome Shell with multiple monitors?
I'm desperately trying to make Gnome Shell work with multiple monitors. I'm on Gentoo. I'm using the proprietary ATI drivers.
I did the configuration with the aticonfig tool.
I tried using ...
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After X restart all XFCE styling is gone (icons,fonts,colors)
I added a monitor with nvidia-settings and after restarting X all my settings seem to have disappeared ..
I tried many things like restoring the xorg.conf - this worked but then I saved to ...
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(osd_cat) Cyrillic character output
All been great with my Cyrillic character output in osd_cat until I created ~/.fonts.conf (at least this is the most obvious reason I'd think) with such settings (as seen on debian forum):
<?xml ...
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Touch pad half-clicking under Xorg in VM
I'm running KDE 4.9 on Xorg 7.7 on Ubuntu 12.10 on VMWare 8.04 on Windows 7.
I'm using a Logitech T650 touchpad. Under windows, it works as expected. Under the VM, when I tap, it seems to "half" ...
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xorg: emulate mouse, no numeric keypad
How to emulate the mouse without a real mouse on X?
i know about shift+num lock but i'm using a half keyboard that does not have a num pad or even the num lock key...
i'm looking for something ...
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Nvidia X setting doesn't save dual monitor settings
I am using Linux Mint 14 KDE and I have a GeForce 9600 GT.
I am trying to use nvidia-settings (driver version 304.84) to save my dual monitor configuration:
Small monitor: TwinView, Resolution Auto ...
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debian/ubuntu - invert all colours in desktop session (colors)
Sometimes I need to flip from a light colour scheme to a dark one quickly, and I need it to apply not just to the desktop theme but also to any webpages that are open etc.
On the Mac there's a neat ...
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Linux X server: use shared memory instead of Unix domain sockets to display a local virtual machine
I want to maximize the graphics performance of a local QEMU virtual machine. I don't have VT-d, so passing the graphics card is not an option.
My current setup uses QEMU's SDL backend to display the ...
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How to I restart a frozen screen in Ubuntu without losing any open windows?
I had a device running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS have its screen freeze. Generally I have simply jumped onto an available tty i.e. ctrl-alt-f1 and execute the command /etc/init.d/lightdm restart or service ...
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Displaylink USB Monitor under Slackware, works for command line but not in KDE
I'm going to give all the information I know so this will be a long post, skip to the end to see the question.
I have installed Slackware on an old laptop with the intention of switching to it from ...
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No cursor with Nvidia drivers when gdm or gnome-shell loaded
In a fresh Arch install if I install gnome and GDM with the official Nvidia drivers:
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra nvidia
systemctl enable gdm.service
nvidia-xconfig
I don't have a cursor when GDM or ...
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Java and X11 - problems opening GUI on Linux
Yesterday a user of my Bukkit plugin sent me an error log entry and I've tried everything to solve it but I can not.
The information I can give is that on MacOS X 10.8.2, Java 1.7 and the latest ...
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Chromebook: Map Search Key to ctrl, ubuntu
I've got ubuntu running on chromebook using crouton.
How do I map the search key to the ctrl action.
Similar to this, swapping the caps lock key and the ctrl key.
/usr/bin/setxkbmap -option ...
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keeping remote X11 applications during remote client (i.e. Xserver) computer sleeps/hibernate/suspend
i'm using using slow but portable computers (asus eeepc, vivobook, etc) and do all my development on a remote server.
most of the time i just ssh to the server, start a screen session, if anything ...
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redshift color adjustment with hardware/software cursor
I'm running Arch Linux (with Con Kolivas' ck1 patchset, although that shouldn't affect this issue) and using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver, currently at version 313.26 (my card is a GeForce ...
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Loading extension GLX : screen freezes
I installed Ubuntu Server edition 12.10 on a server (with 16 GB RAM and 500GB hard disk).
The installation was successful, after which I tried installing GUI using the below command
sudo apt-get ...
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X on one monitor, a bare, tty terminal on another? (linux)
The graphics card on my computer has inputs for (at least) two separate monitors. I have one monitor that is high resolution, and I like using it for X (anything graphical). My other monitor, however, ...
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Redhat 6.4 Dual Monitor Setup - Independent Desktops
I am running Red Hat 6 with 2 Hewlett Packard 22" monitors connected each with 3360 x 1050 resolution. I get a nice screen layout using
xrandr --auto --output DVI-I-2 --left-of DVI-I-1
However, I ...
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How do I highlight “copy this” text on a website so that I might middle-click paste?
It seems to be one common practice on websites which intend to give the user text for copying/pasting to place this text in an <input/> or <textarea/> and pre-select it for the user. ...
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What is the “-nolisten tcp” parameter for X
I have just found that my latest kubuntu comes preconfigured with the following:
in directory /etc/X11/xinit there is xserverrc
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
But the -nolisten tcp ...
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Where is Xkb getting its configuration from?
Is there a way to query where xkb is getting its configuration from?
Under ArchLinux I have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf with
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
...
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Linux Mint fails to start X automatically after update, but X still works
After some update and reboot, X fails to start.
I don't get any errors or warnings from the console, after the last service has started, nothing happens. I can then switch to any terminal I'd like, ...
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How do I remap some keys in my X keyboard layout?
Basically, I want:
capslock => backspace,
backspace => tab,
tab => escape,
escape => capslock
I've tried to put
key <CAPS> { [ backspace ] };
key <BKSL> { [ tab ] };
key ...
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why does Wireshark on Mac OS X runs on X11?
I know little bit about X11 and i have used it for remotely interacting with my applications on my Linux machine. But I don't understand why running Wireshark locally will start an X11 process?
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How to drag a window in DWM?
Using dwm (dynamic window manager), I can't drag a window or move it. I can resize windows with Meta + right click drag, but Meta + click drag doesn't move the window.
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Trouble with nvidia drivers and Xorg on a Macbook Air 3,1
I am literally at the limit of what I can think of to solve this problem so I am hoping to find some help here.
I have a Macbook air 3,1 and I installed the latest Debian stable (squeeze) 2 days ago. ...
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xorg: disable touch sensitivity on clickpad button area on Elantech clickpad
Clickpads have mouse buttons integrated. I always lay one finger on the (left) button (to be ready to press ;). The problem with this is, that I prevent myself moving the cursor with my finger if I ...
