Questions tagged [xorg]
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 community.
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How do I configure DPMS in Pop OS?
I can't seem to get my DPMS settings working. I want to have my screen shutoff after 6 mins. Below, I have created a file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-dpms.conf
Section "Monitor"
Identifier &...
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ffmpeg :0.0: protocol not found Did you mean file::0.0
I record the screen in Ubuntu 20.04 with the ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -video_size $resolution -f x11grab -r 5 -re -i :0.0 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 40 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/...
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Can't log in with X11 on GNOME
I can't connect to Gnome Desktop with X11. When I log in, it kicks me back to login screen.
Manjaro Linux - rolling, Gnome 43.5
Actually, it works on Wayland.
Xorg.0.log
[ 1538.652] (--) Log file ...
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How to configure Xorg and xrandr providers to the same screen?
I have two GPUs in my desktop computer, Radeon VII and a Radeon R7.
$ lspci -knn | grep -iA3 VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 ...
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Xorg freezes temporarily when playing video games
I have a laptop with a GTX 3060 running manjaro i3 on Xorg. with x86_64 Linux 6.1.25-1-MANJARO. Whenever I try to play a game, eventually, Xorg temporarily freezes for 1-3 seconds. Sometimes it even ...
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How do I allow X11 forwarding in root (or with sudo) when accessing Raspberry Pi via SSH?
I have been able to forward X11 through normal executions (e.g. xeyes as opposed to sudo xeyes), but with my purposes I need to access the same applications with root access. I have not been able to ...
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Prevent duplicate windows/popups in x11
For a very long time Thunderbird has had the issue of creating endless duplicates of the primary password prompt on start until you enter the password, and I don't know when anyone gets around to ...
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Window focus for 2nd X11 window
I have a linux command line application that I access via an SSH client and that opens plot windows via a detached system call and X11 forwarding.
An minimal example would be to run the command ...
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Full screen mode bug with dual monitor
I have a bug in vlc when I enter in full screen mode, The video is in the middle of my screens as you can see here https://i.ibb.co/tbQN5Hr/ezgif-com-video-to-gif.gif.
It doesn't do it to me with ...
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Debugging slow X11 network performance
I have two Ubuntu machines on a 2.5Gbps network. When I launch X11 applications remotely, after logging in with ssh -X I get very slow X11 performance. The applications often take half a minute to ...
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Xrandr: can't open display (trying to add fake display)
I've installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS on my PC. There's a scenario that I need to access this PC using Moonlight and Sunshine when there's no monitor connected to my GPU. Sunshine is the host streaming ...
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How can firefox/xorg/??? preserve something rendered on my screen weeks ago?
Something rather strange happened, I opened my laptop (it was sleeping) and I saw my screen render the firefox browser with some old tabs, including one with zoom open and an image of me & my ...
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Virtual display and output on amdgpu drivers
My goal is to use a laptop as a screen for my main laptop through VNC. For that I need to create a virtual output (as the main laptop has only one HDMI that is connected to another display). I've read ...
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Can't set different scaling to 2 monitors in Manjaro
I have a laptop with a 4k resolution screen in which I set a scaling of 125% but this scaling affects an external monitor via HDMI that has a 1920x1080 resolution, is there a way for it not to be ...
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Cloned Arch system does not use entire display with xorg
Following situation:
I have an extremely barebone Arch Installation, that I created in virtualbox.
Installed packages are:
Grub
Plymouth (splash screen)
Ly (Desktop Manager)
Xorg
Focuswriter
That's ...
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x11 modifier "key down" action results in immediate "key down" + "key up", preventing proper usage of the modifier
I've used used the following command to remap my caps lock to Hyper_L
setxkbmap -option caps:hyper
It didn't seem to be working so I opened up xev to see what was happening when I pressed, for ...
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Using X11 (X-Windows) programmatically from Windows
For testing purposes I am trying to run C++ code, using the X11 API under Windows.
I understand that an X Server must be running and I have installed Xming for this purpose.
But the problem is that I ...
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Wayland compositor seems to behave differently with my GLFW code, mainly missing window decorators
To start off, this is a completely fresh install of Arch Linux + Gnome with Wayland. Downloaded the respective packages of glfw-wayland, glew-wayland in order to build my program, and ran it.
I ...
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DWM doesnt log me out, instead just closes
I had DWM working just fine for a while now and (I don't remember making any changes outside of xinitrc prior to this) now it no longer logs me out when I press the keybind (killclient). And by log me ...
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Opening FireFox from CLI causes X error "cannot open display: 0"
When I try to open FireFox in my Linux machine from the CLI, this error shows up:
Error: cannot open display: :0
I have tried to set the DISPLAY to a lot of values, :0, :0.0, :1, :1.0, 0...
I have ...
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How to create a hotpluggable dummy monitor in X11?
I want to make a hotpluggable dummy monitor in X11.
Basically what I want is, a dummy monitor should be present only if no screens are connected to the device. If at least one screen is connected, the ...
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How to pass custom unicode characters to xrdb?
I use xrdb to set a the window title of my terminal (Zutty). I use the following line in the file ~/.config/X11/xresources (UTF-8 encoded):
Zutty.title: 端末
Then I load it using xrdb -load ~/.config/...
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X11 fails to forward chromium-browser by the error "MoTTY X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol", but I can launch XEyes
Title.
Simply running:
chromium-browser --use-gl=swiftshader
Causes:
MoTTY X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol
[34006:34006:0305/101905.803733:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(238)] Missing X ...
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Flatpak & app.image icons being replaced with x11 icon?
TLDR: Trying to learn a little bit about linux filesystem whilst figuring out what to edit so that the app icon, for example Spotify shows in the header title bar and next to the description when ...
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How to fix lag in matplotlib first plot in a WSL Ubuntu?
For a simple plot (e.g. plt.plot([1,2,3], [2,5,1]), matplotlib lags for around 10s after plt.show(), before it opens the plot window.
I'm on Ubuntu WSL on Windows 11. The lag only happens on the first ...
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2 screens on 2 gpus - Xorg config
Can I run 2 screens connected to separat gpus? they are both Nvidia quadro 410. i have the nvidia driver installed, and tried to configure it over nvidia-settings. I didn't work right. one screen is ...
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Can an xclient access all windows of an xserver?
I have little experience with the X Window System. I am also confused with the proper usage of terminology in this realm of technology.
Let me see if I get this correct. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 OS. ...
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Samsung NP700G7C Screen Issue (data may be unplugged)
I have a Samsung NP700G7C Laptop (c. 2009), still running reasonably fine but recently I dropped it (from a height of about 5cm) and since I get a blank screen. The screen is on but does not display ...
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XKB layout, remaping key LSGT is disabling the less key
I am creating a custom XKB layout.
My european keyboard has a physical less/greater key which I want to be mapped as 3rd level modifier.
I used sucesfully include level3(lsgt_switch)
However this also ...
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Font size in Flatpak OBS
F37, KDE Plasma, Xorg
When I install OBS from rpmfusion it respects my font settings in KDE. But when it is installed from Flatpak the fonts are small. How to change it?
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x11-Forwarding fails after subsequent connection
Host: Fedora 36, 6.0.18-200.fc36.x86_64, OpenSSH_8.8p1, X11Forwarding yes
Client: Windows 10, MobaXterm 22.1
I open the first connection to the host, x11-forwarding works.
host01/unix:22 MIT-MAGIC-...
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Why I can't set particular screen resolution via standart Display GUI app, but can set it via xrandr commands?
Standart Display app shows that maximum resolution of my screen is 1600x900:
Hovewer maximum screen resolution is 1920x1080
And I can set this resolution manually via such script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
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How can I enable middle-mouse-drag on the touchpad of a Dell Precision 7560 in xorg X11?
I recently acquired a Dell Precision 7560.
It has a touchpad with 3 physical buttons.
I am unable to perform a middle-mouse-drag operation. Using the xev tool I can see that the left or right mouse ...
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shell script to set display settings on linux server [duplicate]
Need help with scripting on setting display in linux terminal. My below script is not giving the expected result.
#! /bin/bash
xauth list > /home/usr1/utilities/xauthlist.txt #generates the list of ...
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Linux X11 Keyboard behaviour (xkb) on Windows
I recently switched from Kubuntu to Windows and there is nothing I miss more than the Keyboard Layout on Linux. ^ + 1 would give me ¹ (even works with -: X⁻¹), AltGr + O would give me Ø, and so on.
Is ...
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MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1: Doesn't let me run GUI commands as root. What can I do to fix this?
I use the PureOS GNU/Linux distro (based on Debian/Ubuntu). I installed XDM as my display manager. After I logged into a X session as root, I got a bug. I can't run GUI commands as root in a non-root ...
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Virtual Machine Manager crashes Xorg without starting the VM
I am running Xubuntu 22.04 on my laptop and I use Virtual Machine Manager to manage my qemu VMs. The issue is that when I get my mouse over the "open" button to view the details of the VM ...
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vainfo/va-api does not work in wayland/xorg/via VNC
So I'm trying to get hardware acceleration to work on a Intel Xeon E3-1245 v2 running Ubuntu 22.04.
What I did so far:
added the user to the video and render group
removed nomodeset from ...
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How to utilize GPU for/in VNC?
So I got a server that has an Intel processor featuring an iGPU (Intel Xeon E3-1245 v2) which I want to use. I installed everything so that when I SSH into the machine "vainfo" works - so ...
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X11 error while forwarding disabled on SSH
I have set up an SSH server on one of my personal computers where I have disabled X11 forwarding.
When starting new shell sessions while connected to this server, I keep getting the message
xset: ...
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How can I send `xrandr` commands to a remote X11 session?
I have a remote Raspberry Pi connected to an old display. The Raspberry Pi is not configured correctly to display to this old display (it is basically sending the wrong resolution signal to the ...
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File open dialog mechanism in Xorg
I am using classic Xorg desktop with Gnome and Plasma elements. It means I use sddm, Xorg, .xsession, IceWM, but also modern applications like Chrome and both Gnome and Plasma viewers. I would like to ...
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No Video output after reboot
My system was working fine, but after a recent windows gaming session the X system would not start. My computer shows nothing on the screen, but is accessible via SSH. I have an Nvidia GTX 1660 as ...
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dual screen support for plasma desktop
I have 2 displays with differing resolutions, and have them mostly working on a Garuda Linux dr460nized version (KDE Plasma). My current xrandr configuration is:
[ 2 -eq $(xrandr |grep -c 'DP') ] &...
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OpenSSH client: disable warning when X forwarding fails
For OpenSSH clients, X forwarding may be configured for all connection to any SSH server, as follows, in ~/.ssh/config:
ForwardX11 yes
Some servers are not configured for support of X forwarding, ...
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How can I combine two xclip commands?
Copy string into clipboard:
echo "hello world" | xclip -sel clip
Copy string used by middle-click mouse button.
echo "hello world" | xclip
How can combine them as one?
echo &...
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KDE 22.04 X11 VNC Alt Shift Tab not performing Walk Through Windows (Reverse) Task Switcher
Alt+Shift+Tab will not switch tasks in reverse when I VNC into my Linux box from my Windows machine. It has something to do with backtab. My settings show that Alt_Shift+Backtab is set for reverse ...
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Why can't I use the laptop mouse or keyboard in any X window manager on an Alpine Linux machine?
My laptop's keyboard and mice don't work in an X session anymore regardless if started by xinit or a dm. The keyboard works fine in a tty though. I would've included all the necessary info in my ...
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Likely Xrandr: How to create a single virtual monitor on linux so that APIs don't see the physical ones anymore? Not by xorg conf files
I need to have a single virtual monitor on linux. External APIs or apps are not allowed to recognize that two or more physical monitors are attached. Think like Teamviewer not seeing multiple monitors ...
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Set "Ubuntu On Xorg" by default globally but without preventing the choice of Wayland
On this site:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/
I was told the way to set Ubuntu on Xorg by default in the file /etc/gdm3/custom.conf:
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