Questions tagged [xorg]
Questions about X.Org Server (commonly known as Xorg Server, XServer or Xorg), the software that runs the X window system used by most desktop window managers (GNOME, KDE, etc)
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS after change to X11 from wayland, external monitor shows display blur with intense yellow
Because Wayland does not support remote control on Ubuntu, so I changed Wayland to x11 by
sudo gedit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
and remove '#' from
#WaylandEnable=false
But after this, my external monitor ...
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Wayland - Screen sharing - Ubuntu 23.10
I can't use screen sharing in any app with Wayland, I see a black screen instead of my screen.
Help me please, I don`t want to switch Wayland to Xorg.
Ubuntu 23.10
Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2
500GB HDD
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Xorg has been removed?
I stopped seeing Ubuntu with Xorg in my DE menu. I did not do or install anything out of the ordinary recently.
Q: Is this bad or good? How could have this happened? Finally, should I or should I not ...
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Ubuntu 22 Apps UI Flickering when start
In Ubuntu 22.04 app screens flicker like the following images (Slack) when it launches. I found a few apps(Slack, Brave Browser) that have the same problem.
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
Kernel version
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Xorg screen detection for second seat
On my X11 kiosk system with two separate monitors assigned to a seat each, the second monitor cannot find a corresponding screen.
Here my Xorg.conf.
The Xorg.0.log detected the server layout assigned ...
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Issues with mesa driver after update
Issue
Some graphical applications will return this error in the terminal and refuse to run. This issue appeared after a recent update and upgrade
DRI driver not from this Mesa build ('23.2.1-1ubuntu3....
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xrandr --panning returns BadRRCrtc error (Ubuntu 22.04)
I occassionay need to use panning to have a larger (virtual) desktop to move around on my Lenovo laptop. On my previous laptop I used xrandr for that.
xrandr --listactivemonitors
Monitors: 1
0: +*...
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Distorted colors in "Ubuntu on Xorg" session, 22.04 LTS "jammy"
"Ubuntu on Xorg" shows unreadable yellow-greenish colors, very bright and very unreadable:.
(It is bright, very bright, the cell phone camera adjusted the brightness/contrast, but the text ...
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Update to Ubuntu 22 always reverts to unscore start after a few reboots
So I have updated ubuntu 20 to ubuntu 22 and it is fine, then after a few reboots a few days later it reverts back to having to start it in tty mode. Then when I go "startx" it fails saying ...
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How to handle child window in Xephyr
I need to use Xephyr to run an old application that requires 8-bit color depth.
This following command works but with a problem.
xephyr -ac -screen 800x600x8 -reset :2 &
This application I am ...
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Is my dedicated GPU being used on Wayland?
I have a laptop with an integrated Intel GPU and a dedicated Nvidia GPU. My OS is Ubuntu 22.04.4, with gnome.
When I'm using X11, in the "About" tab in the settings I can see that both GPU's ...
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How to login into xrdp/xorg in hyper-v? When I enter ubuntu login credentials in the input box, a blank blue screen shows up
Disabling the Enhanced session mode let's me enter into ubuntu without xrdp login dialogue box but it results in not able to copy clipboard and full screen doesn't work.
I don't have much experience ...
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Add static text to the top bar in x11 [duplicate]
The AI couldn't help me with this, so I call on the council of coders!
I have X11 Ubuntu and want to add static text somewhere on the top bar in Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS OS with GNOME 42.9.
I'm also running ...
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"The display server protocol that you are using is not supported. Recommend to log in with X11 display server protocol configured"
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.04, VMware Horizon Client 8.7.0. I tried to delete the # from /etc/gdm3/custom.config "WaylandEnable" as suggested on the VMware page and other forums, but the error ...
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Xorg - laptop - very poor gaming performance, broken external display connectivity
Firstly, I appologise if this has been answered already (I could not find anything on this topic) or if it is something simple, I am not very adept at Linux.
I need help - I am using a laptop with an ...
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On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS does doing a minimal install affect the ability of the OS to boot using X?
I recently did a minimal install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which installed without error. I have installed a number of apps, one of which doesn't seem to play well with Wayland (Bluemail). So I logged out ...
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Windowing issue on Ubuntu
I used Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu 22.04, and when open edge seems to be the focus of the cursor and thus it takes several clicks to focus on a background window after I click on them while edge is open. ...
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Radeon driver segfault in X.org
I have a Dell R720 home lab configured with a AMD Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R5 430 OEM R7 240/340 Radeon 520 OEM] GPU. This is an old GCN 1 card, so I decided to use the radeon driver instead of the ...
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Monitor powered by Nvidia GPU only shows wallpaper
I have a Dell R720 home lab running Ubuntu 22.04. It is equipped with the following GPUs:
$ nvidia-smi -L
GPU 0: Tesla P40 (UUID: GPU-ac45b921-3664-d911-5dd7-e5b8d49551c3)
GPU 1: Tesla P40 (UUID: GPU-...
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I'm having some problems with my notebook's touchpad
I'm having some problems with my notebook's touchpad. This event appeared after I typed the command sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. The problem is that when I scroll up it goes down,...
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Nvidia driver update from 525 display ports no longer working with GTX 2070
Problem:
After attempting to update my nvidia driver, I got stuck in a constant black screen on reboot. I was able to get back to my desktop but now my display port connections / dual monitors do not ...
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since last package upgrade dark screen with gdm3 on nvidia
Lost in logs and install/removal, can't find where to look further.
since the last generic upgrade and reboot I get a 'dark' screen as a greeter.
Locally I can't use the system however remote services ...
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Ubuntu server on Raspberry PI 4b - Xserver won't start on reboot
I followed the instructions here to install the latest Ubuntu LTS server version (Jammy 22.04.3 LTS) on my Rasp Pi 4B, then used:
sudo apt install lubuntu-desktop
To install a GUI. However, when I ...
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The default colors in XCalc are misleading
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on an HP/Intel box and the default button colors in the XCalc calculator app are confusing. Most of the buttons are light blue but there are 12 buttons in the middle (...
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X11 session fails to start on arm64 Ubuntu 23.10 on Raspberry Pi 5
Ubuntu 23.10 arm64 has been working great on the Raspberry Pi 5 with Wayland. I would like to disable Wayland and use X11 session instead, as there are some features of Citrix that do not work in ...
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Wacom intuos pro not always registering two-finger taps
I have a Wacom Intuos Pro 4, which is touch sensitive. Touch is mostly working except for the way it only occasionally registers two-finger touches. If I tap the tablet with two fingers it will ...
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How can I force an application to run with my dedicated Nvidia GPU using open source drivers
I'm using the open source Nouveau drivers, and I'd like to be able to run applications with my dedicated GPU, NVIDIA GeForce MX250 in X11.
Proprietary drivers are out of the question for me as they ...
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GDM3 issues on 23.10
I recently updated to 23.0 and then 23.10 (hoping it would fix the issue).
When the OS gets to the screen which would normally be the DM login, it just gives the vague "Oh no!" Message. I've ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 Random flickering screen (blackout) in operation with dmesg error
I have problem with flickering screen issue since 22.04, I just updated to 23.10 the issue still persists. I have 2 screen attached to my intel nuc, with intel Iris Plus Graphic with following hw info....
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Screen sharing not working on Microsoft Teams APP on ubuntu 22.04
I'm using the MicrosoftTeams app installed from Ubuntu Software and when i go to share my screen it gives me a popup saying 'Error sharing screen' and nothing more.
My coworkers use it just fine and ...
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xorg.conf monitor layout preferences ignored after upgrading to nVidia+Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
I just built a new PC, installed Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, ran my ansible playbook and rsync'd over my home directory, and transplanted my GeForce RTX 3060... but the Option "MetaModes" modeline in ...
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Build Ghostscript 10 on Ubuntu 22.04
In official repositories of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS there is a Ghostscript 9.55. I'm trying to build latest Ghostscript 10 from sources. It's working but…
a) when I type 'sudo checkinstall' it creates a deb ...
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Dual Monitor or Multi-Monitor Not Working When I switched Wayland to X11
I am using Ubuntu 22.04.3
I have two monitors both are connected with HDMI. The primary one is with the motherboard's HDMI and the other/secondary one is with Intel Arc A750 GPU HDMI port.
Both ...
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NVIDIA GPU not being used in 23.10
I installed Ubuntu 23.10. I have NVIDIA GT 730, which is a legacy card now. While installation, the GDM would not appear, I was only greeted with a black screen. I installed using Safe Graphics Mode. ...
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Cannot run in framebufffer mode, X11 fails
Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices, with regard to X-windows. How do you specify a busID? Occurs in latest LTS release (22.04).
[ 263.386] (EE) Screen 0 ...
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How to autostart a jar file with swing GUI when booting Ubuntu
I'm trying to autostart a jar file with an .sh script:
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
java -jar /home/username/Desktop/jarfile.jar
The jar file is a Swing GUI application. When i manually start the ...
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I get logged out of session every time I go four levels deep in any directory with terminal
I'm a big fan of Ubuntu mate and I finally installed the latest LTS version (22.04) on my old 64-bit PC today. However, I found out that any time I try to go four levels deep in a directory using the ...
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can wayland (one day) implement restarting (or reloading all internal data of) gnome shell? wayland (or gnomeshell) have what is required for that?
I read wayland is more secure (how tho?).
But being able to restart gnome-shell is essential as it ends up using 1.5GB ram..
And when I did that with xorg, things worked better just after.
Many ppl ...
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Shortcut to swtich windows of a current application does not work
Usually, I use the following keyboard shortcuts to move around windows:
Alt + Tab to switch through windows from all applications,
Super + Tab to switch through applications,
Alt + ` or
Super + ` to ...
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Green screen with X org / Black screen with Gnome RD on Wayland
So this is probably 2 issues but they are related so I need to put them in the same thread.
My goal is to use Gnome Remote Desktop and establishing the connection is fine. Except, when using Wayland ...
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Dual 4k monitors - only one works at full resolution and refresh rate at a time
just got a new setup at work which consist of a Lenovo thinkpad P1 Gen6 with a Geforce RTX 4600 and a thinkpad thunderbolt 4 docking station with 2 1.4 display ports. To go along with this setup I ...
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How to completely disable / delete the mouse on Ubuntu?
I tried a few approaches like xinput list and xinput disable but still can't get to completely disable the mouse (touchpad or any other pointer input) on my Ubuntu machine. Does anyone know how to do ...
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startx fails after upgrade
[ 261.695]
X.Org X Server 1.21.1.4
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 261.695] Current Operating System: Linux cylon4 6.2.0-39-generic #40~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 16 10:53:04 ...
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Use dedicated GPU (Nvidia) and internal GPU (Intel) at the same time?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, Desktop.
I always had a Monitor on the dedicated GPU (Nvidia) and one monitor on the internal GPU (Intel). Last one I only use for some youtube tutorials.
However, I recently ...
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Rendering window on a ssh session
I came to you with a request, I'm trying to get output in the window format out of a ssh session on a linux server, the setup is as follows:
Server Ubuntu 22.04 on a machine, ssh server on that, and a ...
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Pinch to zoom in Chrome with X11
Is there any way to have pinch to zoom functionality on Chrome, Ubuntu 22.04 and X11?
The functionality works well with Wayland but using Wayland introduces bugs that I don't want.
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Wacom tablet causing crashing/freezing on Mutter X11
I have been having consistent issues with Wacom tablets on Ubuntu 23.10. On some applications such as Krita, whenever the pen touches the tablet, the window will immediately freeze and become ...
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Why does google chrome show the FILE CHOOSER on the CONSOLE even when DISPLAY X11 FORWARDING is on?
I have ssh'ed from machine1 to another machine (machine2)
machine1:$ ssh -X user@machine2
machine2: gedit
and I run gedit and I open the file chooser.
Both gedit and the file chooser respect the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 - Cursor disappears intermittently
I'm having an issue where my cursor disappears occasionally. I can reliably cause the cursor to disappear by inputting text into a text box on Firefox, but it also disappears in other (seemingly ...
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Error when trying to run an electron .deb file to my HDMI Port on Raspberry Pi Zero 2
I've built an electron app that I would like to deploy to a pi zero w2 and have it auto start when the device is plugged in. It should work similarly to a fire stick.
It will be plugged in to power ...