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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Dual (Triple?) Monitor problem with QQ + Nouveau
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude with an NVIDIA NVS 4200m video card.
I'm trying to get it to work with 3 monitors connected: the laptop's, one connected via VGA, and another via HDMI.
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Xserver sometimes fails to start
I'm having problems with my Xserver sometimes failing to start. It doesn't happen consistently, but when it happens, instead of showing the login screen I get some vague one-line error message about ...
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Add xorg section when device matched (SIS671 VGA)
I am working on small distribution based on Ubuntu. Some of computers we use are SiS based. I need to add proper xorg section which sets video driver to sis671.
I can use /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but ...
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Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality
I have two identical monitors connected on my pc but only the one connected via HDMI is "fully" recognized inside nvidia-settings.
I am trying to manually "decrypt" the xorg.conf file to make the ...
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Status of xforcevesa boot parameter?
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), Linux Mint 13 (maya)
The xforcevesa parameter doesn't seem to have any effect on X video driver loading. Is it obsolete?
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12.10 recent xorg update loops login cannot access xterm with Ctrl+Alt+F1 or recovery boot [closed]
After I updated xorg/xserver from 2 days ago login loops, Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 brings blank screen. Booting to recovery options thru grub all options hang dpkg, failsafe, fsck etc. The only access I have is ...
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After Xorg update I have a black screen
I have Ubuntu 12.10, my video card is Amd HD Radeon 7670M, and i have installed it's driver. It worked perfectly untill today ,when i made this updates:
*Important security updates:
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Xorg crash when i updated last xorg-core [closed]
After updating the last version of xorg-core my system (Ubuntu 12.10) is freezing right after boot screen. How do i restore the last stable version of xorg-core? And how do i get data from logs?
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Can't detect second monitor (NVIDIA Optimus)
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a DELL XPS with NVIDIA Optimus. I know that questions related to this have been asked several times, and I followed many tutorials and instructions but couldn't make this ...
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How to set up two X screens for two monitors on one two-head graphics card
I would like to reference my screens using ":0.0" and ":0.1" so that I might better segregate my two desktops' work-and-play flows.
I am interested in being able to specify my apps' initial screens ...
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How would I get Nvidia GeForce GT 520 working perfect on a Panasonic TC-P50X1 plasma tv?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I've got it working on plasma OK but I know it could be better, especially from a technically correct prospective. The new nvidia-current settings didn't have an overscan ...
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Black screen when taking screenshot
I am getting black pictures when I try to take a screenshot with the PrtSc key (which calls Screenshot application).
My graphical system is a Nvidia optimus with Bumblebee installed (the problem ...
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Can not get rid of too new NVIDIA driver from initrd
I run kernel 3.5.0-27-generic on Ubuntu 12.10 (Pretzlyquantumbear!?)
Somehow, I have installed Nvidia driver 310.32, and X11 will not start unless I at each boot go and run make install in ...
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Many games stuttery - nvidia
Many games I play are stuttery, (run at a fine fps, but pause randomly every second or so). This happens both when running a native game such as Amnesia, and a game through wine like LoL or WoW. ...
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X11 configuration tool [duplicate]
Is there a nice up to date gui to edit the xorg configuration files? I mean /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
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I have a 3 monitor setup. How can I set nvidia settings (Xorg.conf, etc) to properly use 2 of the 3?
I've got a Thinkpad W510 laptop running Linux Mint 13 (I figured I'd be safe asking this question since LM is an Ubuntu derivative, and in any case I believe my problem is distro-agnostic). I have two ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Daily won't boot at all in upstream VirtualBox [duplicate]
I managed to use Unity (slowly) and then installed Lubuntu. I restarted the machine and now I CAN'T GET X TO LOAD ON TTY7. I can switch to login terminals though. jockey-text tells me that I am using ...
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Where is xorg.conf? [duplicate]
I am not able to find xorg.config in /etc/X11. Where was it moved to in raring? I need to find the file so that I can disable the sleep after 10 min.
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Xorg - Resolution does not fit into screen
I have an 19-inch monitor with a 1366 x 768 native resolution and I'm using an ATI HD Radeon 5670. It does not detect my native resolution automatically, so I've put something like this on my ...
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How to understand nvidia-settings save configuration options?
After installing a proprietary driver for my nvidia graphics card
gksu nvidia-settings was run from terminal
Through which have checked the configuration of my graphics card but am unsure where ...
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KDE boots up to a black screen
KDE boots up, shows the KDE logo with five dots, then the screen goes black. I can hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get to a console login, so I know that the monitor and video card work, but X never loads ...
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Dual monitor Ubuntu 12.04 - only one monitor works at a time
Let me preface this by saying I've been searching and hacking at this for a week. I've tried everything that I've ready (that I understand) on the site here and plenty of other sites. I've been a ...
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Can X.org Load Two Different Drivers? (Triple-Head Setup with Intel and NVidia Card)
We want to set up a 3 screens with an onboard intel graphics adapter and an nvidia card.
Both cards are recognized in lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] ...
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I am having an error and my mouse cursor is disappearing randomly after an update
I just updated my system and it was asking me to restart it to complete the installation of packages I was just going to restart suddenly the electricity was cutoff and now it is giving the following ...
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Paste text into a running X application
Situation:
I have a running application in a x-window system (for example: Chrome on Ubuntu) and want to paste something with a script invoked through a keyboard shortcut.
The keyboard shortcut ...
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lightdm creating problem with multiseat configuration with 2 Graphics cards
I have multiscreen setup on my Ubuntu machine with Ubuntu12.10, Intel integrated HD Grahics and NVidia GeForce 210. The lightdm version is 1.2.3.
I am facing two problems on the setup
1) On ...
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Ubuntu consistenly restarts at gui interaction
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Gnome. I recently swapped out my AMD gfx card for an Nvidia card and then back again. In the process i have ended up here - a rebooting system.
I have thus far used ...
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Touchpad/Trackpad is not found by Ubuntu 12.10 but external USB mouse works
I've just attempted a reinstall of Ubuntu 12.10, which has resulted in my issue of the trackpad not working. I've run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, but still to no avail. Here ...
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Created X11 cursor. How do I install to 12.04? [duplicate]
I created a new cursor to replace the arrow (and only the arrow). How do I install my new X11 cursor on Ubuntu 12.04?
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Dual monitor extended desktop setup randomly falling back to mirror mode
I just have this strange behavior and couldn't find out what is wrong. Anyone ever saw this kind of error? I checked the xorg log, but wasn't able to identify any obvious error.
My setup:
Notebook ...
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“X shares a lot of system state across process boundaries”
The background
I was to get informed about the state of Wayland adoption by Ubuntu, when I learned it's not any more an option and there is something named Mir in the place instead. So I wanted to ...
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Ati - Problems with open drivers after fglrx remove
I have ubuntu 12.04 and kde 4.10.1.
I have removed fglrx drivers 13.1 doing this:
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
I have also removed xorg.conf (it was in a ...
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dual screen setup in ubuntu with Intel HD graphics
I have a ubuntu machine with integrated Intel HD Graphics with 2 monitors plugged into the two ports provided. With this setup both the monitors have exaclty same output. I needed to extend the X ...
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Unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory
frequently getting 'fork: Cannot allocate memory' when running commands over ssh. I have 64Gb of RAM and usually 1~2Gb free.
swap is more than 8gb free
Ubuntu version:"Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" Desktop ...
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After swapping ctrl and caps in xmodmap, how can I make ctrl work properly for multi-modifier combinations?
I've swapped left ctrl and caps lock by creating ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 66 = Control_L
keycode 37 = Caps_Lock
clear Lock
clear Control
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L Control_R
then ...
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Gnome 3 uninstall failed?
Oke now i really messed up my system. I have tried to uninstall gnome 3.
I have followed this guide.
But now my system do not anything at all. When I boot it stops when it needs to load the GUI. I ...
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My monitor is not properly configured (blurry text/image)
I'm on a laptop and I got an external monitor connected with a VGA cable. The monitor is an HP Compaq LE2202x LED Backlit LCD Monitor. My problem is the text and the image in general is blurry. It ...
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Can't change resolution in Xubuntu
i have a freshly installed Xubuntu 12.04 on an old computer.
I'm fairly new to working with ubuntu (i know how to use google) and cannot seem to get the right resolution with it connected to a 16:9 ...
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XUBUNTU doesn't load any default styling (icons,fonts,colors)
I added a monitor with nvidia-settings and after restarting X all my settings seem to have disappeared ..
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Nvidia-settings overrides my XFCE settings (styles,fonts,colors)
I added a monitor via the Nvidia settings tool and saved to /etc/X11/xorg.conf . When I restarted X all the WM styles seemed grey and "default" - basic.
I moved xorg.conf.backup to xorg.conf, ...
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multiple screens support in X server
I have some basic questions about support for multiple screens in X server. Probably these are dumb questions but it would very helpful if someone could answer and also point me where I can read more ...
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Cyborg M.M.O.7 Mouse Extra Buttons - No 11-mouse.conf
I have a Cyborg M.M.O.7 mouse with quite a few extra buttons, and I'd like to be able to bind them to things. I've found a post here that seems to detail the process, but when I attempted to carry out ...
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I over-wrote my xorg.conf with Nvidia-settings and lost my XFCE settings
I changed some monitor resolution things with the Nvidia tool (saved to /etc/ .. xorg.conf) and when I restarted XFCE I had lost all styling of taskbar, icons, defaults fonts etc..
What can I do to ...
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xrandr is detecting the wrong minimum / maximum resolutions?
xrandr output
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1200
default connected 1920x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
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Is it possible to key-bind the pasting of the x-clipboard? How?
I was wondering if it is possible to add a keybind to paste the x-clipboard in Lubuntu.
(primary selection)
If possible to keybind it, would you still be able to use the middle-click too?
Is there ...
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How to keep the Xorg settings from the Live CD/USB?
For some reason no matter what I do in regards to getting proper ATI Drivers, nothing works. However, testing out the OS in a Live USB is actually perfect. Full-screen flash works, 3D graphics work, ...
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How do I configure matplotlib to work on EC2?
We are trying to set up a virtual development / research cloud environment for our students. Students need to be able to log-in, launch python IDE, and plot some graphs for their homework.
We are ...
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Graphics drivers “break” right after installation and updating
This happens EVERY time I install Ubuntu. I'll pop the live CD in, and install it. The graphics work fine until I have to install mandatory updates and then restart. From there, I'll be unable to even ...
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Will wayland be default in 2015? [closed]
I read an topic on Phoronix
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?74894-X-Org-Wayland-Plans-For-Ubuntu-13-04-Are-Drawn
that someone posted that wayland will be default in 2015 !
Is it true?if ...
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using fglrx after using vesa driver issues
I've been using Vesa driver for old Radeon X1950. After I removed the card (using integrated HD 400 now), installed fglrx and applied correct xorg.conf X is up and running and I can see "log in" ...
