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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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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XDM login loop, missing or wrong session and resources files
I use
Debian Wheezy/Sid with XDM
urxvt as terminal as well as i3 as window manager
~/.xsession and /.Xresources as session and resources file, respectively.
Last night I accidentally used up all ...
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How to check multitouch in GNU/Linux
I have several questions about multitouch in Linux:
Is multitouch and MPX (multi-pointer extension) related? If an application handles multiple cursors does it mean that it is multitouch-ready?
How ...
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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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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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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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Dropbox causes xorg to use 100% CPU
For some time, I noticed that my xorg process uses up between 60 and 100% of the CPU (according to top). I also noticed that interactive work becomes sluggish, even on my multi-core i7 processor.
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Alt, Meta and other modifier keys
I want to get more combos in Emacs, so I tried to bind Alt, Super, Hyper via modmap to keys. I failed at it. So I tried to use xdotool.
I started emacs -Q for clean experiment. Pressed C-hc and ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Separate keyboard for shortcuts on linux (two keyboards,two layouts)
I have two keyboards: an old ps/2 one and a usb one. I want the usb keyboard to have the us layout (or prefferably have the usb keyboard follow the layout chosen in gnome) and the ps/2 one to have a ...
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Nvidia GT430 installed on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - xorg misconfigured
We are running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on a PC with onboard graphics. We installed a new graphics card, NVidia ENGT430 and its drivers.
However after regenerating Xorg.conf, X11 will not load, giving the ...
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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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“Seamless” multi user session in linux/X11
The goal
I would love to have a multi user system (based on linux) using only one X11 session with multiple screens and pairs of mouse and keyboard. So two (or more) people can work with the same ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Completely remove all X.org setting and configuration files
I'm trying to completely reinstall X server and AMD proprietary drivers on a Fedora Core 17 amd64 with kernel 3.6.11.
How do I make sure nothing of my previous setup / configuration remains, so that ...
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Ignore monitor hotplugging events using x11 and an AMD card
I have a triple monitor setup (xorg.conf generated with amdcccle: http://pastebin.com/gWSVEyLa) running on Arch Linux with Xmonad as my window manager. Physically, there is an HDTV off to the left, a ...
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XOrg and disabling key-repeat
I've tried disabling xorgs repeating key presses when long-pressed using:
xset r off
However, every time I connect a USB sound card, it is reset and key presses repeat.
I think that the USB sound ...
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Run teamviewer on smaller-resolution X screen
I am using Teamviewer to view my Kubuntu desktop from a rooted B&N Nook Simpletouch (Android 2.1). The desktop has 1680x1050 resolution and the Nook only shows the top 600x800 of that. Is it ...
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How to change a keycode using setkeycodes
I have a Thinkpad Edge E130 running Sabayon (a Gentoo-based distro), and I'm fighting the well-know bug Xorg 255 keycodes limit.
My laptop has the Fn+F4 hotkey for Mic Mute/Unmute. This is the ...
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ArchLinux(Guest) Installation VMWare 8 (Windows 7 Host) - Accessing Gnome3 DE using VNC, How?
I have installed ArchLinux as guest OS on VMWare running on Windows 7 host.
I want to have a Gnome 3 GUI running.
I want to achieve that in a way that VMWare itself does not show the GUI.
Instead I ...
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Dual Monitor Problems with X11
After spending 2 day researching this problem, learning about RandR and Xinerama and lots of other stuff. I've reached a dead-end and so felt that I should ask here. Basically, I can't get a dual ...
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Rename X11 input devices with hotplugging?
Is it possible to change the X11 input device identifiers, as they are for example listed by xinput? Preferably without switching to a static xorg.conf configuration, I'm using xorg-server 1.12.4 ...
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can't access system after update (xorg/MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1)
On Ubuntu 12, I can't access system, it stays stuck on lightdm.
From tty, giving startx, I receive this message:
ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ...
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Arch linux - strange behaviour after installing fglrx
I have a problem with drivers on arch linux. I installed catalyst through unnoficial catalyst repo as wiki says.
pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
aticonfig --initial
After this operation i ...
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Can't get 1080i output from Intel integrated graphics card (Sandy Bridge) on Ubuntu 12.04
I just bought a Celeron G540 and an MSI H61M-P31 for my HTPC, currently running Ubuntu Precise. Previously, I had used an AMD card -- with some work, I got it to send 1080i output, the only thing my ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: screen freezes when I open the laptop
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my lenovo G580 laptop.
When I close the laptop (goes into hyvernation mode) and open it, sometimes my screen freezes (I can still see my mouse moving, but that is ...
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How to use a backup copy of xorg.conf
I recently installed a new graphics card in my Ubuntu 10.04 PC due that my onboard video died. It was an Nvidia chipset GEForce 6100. The new graphics card is also an Nvidia chipset, ASUS 210 ...
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Limit Xquartz to One Monitor
I'm on OSX 10.7.4 in a multi monitor setup. I use X11Forwarding via SSH to work remotely. Both stock X11 and Xquartz X11 have no (obvious) setting to limit themselves to one monitor.
Is there a way I ...
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Configuration to point an X tty to a separate system?
Specifically, I have an Ubuntu 10.04 system with a headless Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, and I'm looking for a way to have it set up so pressing ctrl+alt+F8 will take me into another X client which ...
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Ubuntu 12.04, 2 NVIDIA GPUs, 2 different XScreens
I have two separate GPUs on my desktop, each has one monitor attached with.
I know Compiz does not work with Xinerama, and TwinView only works when 2 monitors are from the same GPU. So I disable both ...
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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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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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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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Permanently Disable Dell Latitude 2120 Touchscreen in X.org Upon Start-up and Suspend/Restore
In the spirit of full disclosure, below is the background, tl;dr: I am running Lubuntu Oneiric and I want to disable my borked touchscreen, running it on X.org start-up works but suspending the system ...
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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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Improve priority of mplayer-pulseaudio-Xorg combination
I'm often having mplayer running on the side (e.g. watching television). However, this occasionally doesn't run too smoothly (granted, the CPU and GPU are also a bit weak).
I've already running ...
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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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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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Mouse back/forward buttons in FreeBSD under VMWare Workstation
VMWare Workstation 7.1.4
Host: Windows 7 (laptop with touchpad).
Guest: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (yesterday's)
vmmouse driver: 12.6.9_1 (from ports)
The problem: xev doesn't see mouse back/forward ...
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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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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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problem trying to configure xorg in debian arm system
I'm trying to get the display working with xorg an a LOGIC PD TI AM35X SOM-M2 system running debian through a NFS boot setup. The LCD touchscreen display that I have hooked up comes up as /deb/fb0.
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No Screensfound after update from 9.3 to 10.4 Ubuntu
Recently I updated ubuntu from 9.3 to 10.04. and found that xorg's newer version of inter driver is no longer supported. causes No Screen Found error
So trying to move back to previous version of ...
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Why are the fonts all screwy for remote X11 apps on one Mac client?
I have two Mac OS X clients, both running XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33). When I SSH into a remote linux system enabling X11 forwarding and launch gnome-terminal, on one Mac the terminal ...
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ubuntu virtual console screws up colours in X11
Whenever I use a virtual console on my machine, then return to the graphical environment, colours stop displaying correctly. At first I thought it was just displaying at a lower colour depth, but the ...
