Questions tagged [x-server]
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difference between x servers in windows
I'm using Windows 10 Insider Preview with Windows subsystem for Linux enabled
I'm wondering what's the true differences between VcXsrv and Xming to view windows from Ubuntu in windows
I know the immediate differences with the settings, I meaning…
DanHolli
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What are my X client options for MS Windows?
I need to connect to a headless X Windows server (running on Ubuntu) from my MS Windows 7 computer over a 100 Mbit network. I could use VNC (or any other remote viewer) but the 3D graphics performance would be lousy I imagine. I used to have it…
Nick Bolton
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How to get the display number I was assigned by X
From X(7) man pages
DISPLAY NAMES
From the user's perspective, every X server has a display name of the form:
hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
[...]
displaynumber
[...]
To avoid confusion, each…
ricab
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How can I run a program remotely via SSH but display locally
Is it possible for me to SSH to another server in Linux (Ubuntu), run a program there but display it locally?
And is it possible for me to SSH to another server in my terminal,
and configure it so that all graphical programs (Firefox, Emacs) run in…
michael
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When I start Ubuntu it enters tty[1-6] instead of my desktop (How do I get to desktop?)
When I start Ubuntu it enters tty[1-6] instead of my desktop. Normally I could get back to the desktop by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7 but that doesn't work.
I tried sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop but it fails.
I tried startx which started the x-server…
Bua
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How to fix "MobaXterm X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol"
When connecting from Windows to my Linux box using MobaXterm, I cannot open Linux-GUI applications on the Windows side. On the Windows side, nothing happens. On the Linux box I get this error message:
MobaXterm X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation…
Sascha
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Moving from windows to linux : Understanding - X Window System, X Server, Xorg, Xfree86
I'm a windows developer(Win32api) moving from Windows to Linux. While installing linux there are lot of things to know about X11, X Window System, X Server, Xorg, Xfree86 and what not.
How come we aren't aware of such things in windows? Wiki article…
claws
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How can I export DISPLAY from a Linux terminal to a Windows PC?
Exporting display from a Linux terminal to a Linux desktop is easy; you do the following:
On 192.168.90.121 (localPC):
xhost + 192.168.10.164
On 192.168.10.164 (remotePC):
export DISPLAY=192.168.90.121:0.0
firefox The Firefox window appears…
firefox The Firefox window appears…
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Getting "Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"
I'm using X applications over an SSH connection to some machine. When I run an X app, say, xclock for simplicity, I get a console message saying:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
... but the app runs. My locales are:
$…
einpoklum
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How to use wmctrl to activate window of a given class?
The output of wmctrl -lx looks like this:
0x020002f5 0 Plasma.Plasma lnx plasma-desktop
0x02a00015 0 okular.Okular lnx TCP/IP Protocol Suite – Okular
0x032000fe 1 amarok.Amarok lnx Billy Talent - This Suffering :: …
ps-aux
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How to start Xorg-server inside plain chroot?
when I runchroot /somepath /usr/bin/startxI got something what looks like an evdev problem... (I correctly --bind mounted /dev/ /dev/pts /dev/shm /proc /sys /tmp )
The screen is displayed and programs run normally, except I got no mouse nor keyboard…
user2284570
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How to mirror my display to a remote XServer?
We have got a big screen in our office connected to an old PC, whose only purpose is to display information generated by software such as Munin, Nagios, etc. It is running Debian with Xfce to be able to run on that machine. Still it is a…
mlaug
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How can I sort out Xephyr's keyboard mapping?
When I start up Xephyr inside of X, my keyboard map becomes wonky mostly just for non-printing characters. I can't use arrow keys. According to xev, The down arrow gets mapped to Super_R. The up arrow is Print Screen. PgDown is mapped to "Menu". My…
qedi
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How to run multiple X desktops?
How can I run two instance of, e.g. GNOME, on my computer at once? I know how to change the virtual terminal, but I can't work out how to start a second instance of gnome - it just exits telling me that the X session is locked.
EDIT: The other…
a_m0d
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Xserver that I can reconnect to
I'm looking for something like screen but for X?
I imagine situation when I do something like "X --reconnect remote_server:11", and I am reconnected to pre-existing X session, with all programs that were running on it previously are still there.
Is…
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