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 monitor setup with extended desktop
I am trying to setup a dual monitor settings in ubuntu which will extend the desktop over two monitors. That means single panel, single launcher over two monitors.
Actually I was going to setup two ...
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Will Mir display server be able to launch X11 applications?
I've checked the wiki but Xorg is not even mentioned there.
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Linux 12.10 quantal does not load NVIDIA driver version 313.18 for GeForce GT 650M
I have an HP Envy DV7 7212 with the GeForce GT 650M. I dual boot Windows 8 and Linux 12.10, Quantal. The video hardware operates properly under Windows 8. The Linux drivers are not loaded by the time ...
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change gsettings without running X and Unity
I am trying to change some gconf settings in Ubuntu 12.10. I would like to change the lightdm greeter background.
I have discovered that while logged in to unity as a user while running X server, I ...
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Xorg fails to start with Intel graphics
Ever since the installation of Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop today it has been refusing to start Xorg when booting on occasions. Randomly it works but about 75% of the time it either gives me a black ...
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Nvidia gt 640 Low profile (ZOTAC) drivers don't work on Ubuntu
I recently got a nvidia GT640, I went to the zotac website downloaded the driver moved the driver to the terminal then installed it after I installed it my system was kind of sluggish and UNITY did ...
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Dual Montiors, One Stuck at 640x480
I have a dual monitor setup using the ViewSonic below as my primary and the Acer as my secondary. I'm assuming that the Acer does not send the EDID so it's not picking up on the correct native ...
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Virtual box graphic issues when launched in another x session?
When I start virtual box in another x session under tty8, I get some strange results. Everything appears to be normal but when I boot up my Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit system aero does not work. ...
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Changed xorg, can't see desktop icons at all
I'm running the nvidia proprietary drivers and changed xorg.conf on accident. Now when I log in I'm greeted with my desktop background and nothing else. In the terminal I've tried to create a new ...
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Third monitor doesnt detected in Lucid
I have trouble to madee my third display(15" DELL E151FPp, conected to nvidia via VGA cable(without driver instaled, an on motherboard graphic adapter)) work in addition to an ati pci-e card with two ...
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Developing GUI application for CLI Ubuntu Server
I need to be able to render my own GUI to the screen, but I'm not really sure how to do this considering I'm in a CLI environment. I don't want to install Ubuntu-desktop or anything, I don't need an ...
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force dual screen in Ubuntu
I'm trying to control a Ubuntu 10.04 machine through a Windows 7 machine using Putty and Xming. Meaning, I'm sending the display from Linux to Windows through xservice.
The Ubuntu machine has only ...
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Xorg: no screens found on startup in 12.04.2 LTS
I have an Intel IvyBridge video card. This morning, my 12.04.02 LTS treated me to an Xorg server crash.
Trying an older kernel worked once, but lead to the same error during reboot. The problem ...
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MGA G200e on Ubuntu Server 12.10
I'm trying to set up correct display resolution but the driver doesn't seem to work.
r00ster@nix:~$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for r00ster:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA ...
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Xorg server (can't install Google Earth stable, acroread)
I'm on a Dell Inspiron x86_64. With Precise Pangolin 12.04.2 through the regular updates.
I recently upgraded the Linux kernel from 3.2 (Installed Precise 12.04 in Oct.12) to 3.5 (the one that comes ...
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Cursor trapped on secondary X screen
Problem
My mouse keeps getting stuck on DISPLAY=:0.1.
Setup
Three monitors on two cards with two X Screens.
Radeon HD 6950 (00)
DISPLAY=:0.0
Monitor 1 over HDMI
Monitor 2 over DVI
Radeon HD ...
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Which package is “always on top” from/associated with?
X? Compiz?
Would like to know for bug report, problem is:
"Always on top" (right click top of window - any program)
Then lock computer, the window can now obscure the login box.
Tested with ...
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12.04.2 update problems
I'm having problems with the update to 12.04.2 (x64).
I ran the updates and rebooted the machine. It started backup in TTY1 (I've had this happen before no biggy) so I hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 and got ...
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Aspire One 722 freezes on startup(and a lot of other problems)
This is driving me nuts. When my laptop feels like it(randomly), it just freezes when starting up. It gets stuck in this brown screen and I have to shut it down with the power button. It might do this ...
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Update grayed out (Xorg X server — QXL display driver)
I've been ignoring this issue for a while since it didn't effect anything on my system. But its annoying to watch this one little update graded out while the rest of the updates get installed.
Any ...
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Fatal server errors, no screens found [duplicate]
I am an issue with my ubuntu box: I get the following error message when I do a startx: Fatal server errors, no screens found
When I start my computer, I do hear the ubuntu sound indicating the ...
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Run without monitor in 12.10
Yes I know this question is out there but none of the answers work for me like the ones found here and here.
I have Ubuntu version 12.10 32bit.
It's a fresh install. Only software installed is ...
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Will “legacy” Linux/X11 apps run on Ubuntu Touch?
I've been doing a little testing of the Ubuntu Touch preview on my Nexus 10 tablet. It's very pretty, but I'm curious what support is planned for "legacy" Linux/X11 apps that aren't based on Qt/QML?
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display power saver logs me out
I recently got a second display. I am attempting to set it up so the two displays are in TwinView, with one landscape and one portrait orientation. After getting everything to work the way I wanted, ...
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Going from a dual boot (win7 64bit/ubuntu 12.04 32 bit) to win7/ubuntu64 using wubi
I am unable to install over the top of my 32bit ubuntu 12.04 successfully. I start out with win7 64bit and ubuntu 12.04 32 bit installed and working/booting without a problem . I decided to go to ...
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Mix AMD and Nvidia cards in X?
Is there a way to use 2 monitors on an Nvidia card and an extra monitor on an AMD card?
Acceleration would be fine, but fbdev would also suffice.
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nVidea 2nd Graphics card not detected
I have installed two video cards on my new desktop in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 32 bit, each of the cards has both DVI and VGA. On the first video card I have 2 screens, which worked out of ...
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update-alternatives error installing fglrx on 12.10 with PowerXpress card (
When I try to install FGLRX from the andrikos ppa, I get the following error:
joey@joey-vaio-linux:~$ sudo aticonfig --initial -f
Uninitialised file found, configuring.
PowerXpress info: Diagnostic ...
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Removed some directories being root and Xubuntu won't start
I had some problems before doing this where xfce won't start (applications started, but no borders and couldn't type anything on the keyboard) and someone told me to use this command sudo rm -rf ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS boots to purple screen
I have seen some solutions but none of them work for me, so here is the issue
Ubuntu 12.04 will not boot but instead leaves me with a purple screen with no loading bar
I have:
An Asus motherboard
8 ...
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NVIDIA Display Settings Wiped on Reboot Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
I have the latest (31X beta) NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and no matter how many times I save my display configuration settings after editing my refresh rate and dual monitor position the ...
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How to properly get screen rotation programmatically?
I need to programatically obtain screen rotation. I'm using Qt and the X extension XRandr. I'm trying the following:
Display *dpy;
Window root;
XRRScreenConfiguration *conf;
Rotation rotation;
int ...
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How to avoid flickering in Graphical drawings using X11
We are drawing graph in a window. We are updating the curves for every 50ms with the values received from hardware say like sensors. We need to display the values in graphical format. So we are ...
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Help scaling restricted nvidia driver's output
I'm trying to re-implement the overscan compensation the nvidia drivers used to have, where the OS and all the apps, etc. think my screen resolution is 1280x720, but the video card scales it to ...
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nVidia driver not stretching full screen apps to fill screen
My former nVidia proprietary driver (295.40), and all others before it that I can remember, used to stretch any full screen application running bellow my monitor resolution to fill the entire screen ...
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xfce windows are missing toolbar, focus is broken
It's subtle, but as you can see in the screenshot:
there are no min, max or close buttons on the windows. The edges of windows can be resized, but it doesn't help the situation. Clicking on a ...
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Does vncviewer require X locally?
Does vncviewer require an X server to work?
I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.04, as well as the xtightvncviewer package. When running vncviewer, it claims that it cannot find the display.
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How to resume/bring back to foreground X-session running in the background?
I have started an X session on tty1 Ctrl Alt F1 by :
startx -- :1
Now after I went to my 'standard' X session to Ctrl Alt F7
and then back to tty1 and get the prompt instead of X session.
How ...
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.xsession ignored, Ubuntu 12.10
I started using uxterm instead of Gnome's terminal today. I put settings for uxterm in ~/.Xdefaults. But because Ubuntu's configuration ignores my .xsession file, I can't have these settings loaded at ...
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Forcing Powermizer to Maximum performance by default [duplicate]
I bought an xfx Geforce N640 video card and installed it with driver 313.18 in my Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits. The tearing level on my screen is bad, and in another question here (How do I stop video ...
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xf86config for Lubuntu?
The X Window User HOWTO 2.2. XF86Config:
XFree86 also includes the xf86config utility for this, but many distributions have their own such utilities.
What does Lubuntu have?
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Ubuntu 12.10 w/ Kernel 3.7.0.7 and Open Source Driver RESUME/BRIGHTNESS CONTROL
I am using an Inspiron 7520. I got a AMD Radeon HD 7730m running in switching with an Intel 4000 HD. I have updated my Open source drivers with xorg edgers and x-swat. I am running on the kernel 3.7 ...
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Ubuntu is not launching properly on first X server boot attempt and won't wake up after sleep [closed]
I think my problem is a consequence of some of the latest updates, because I haven't changed anything serious on my system. When I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 and log into my account, Unity seems to get ...
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X server failed to start after using nvidia-xconfig and unable to use my 2nd GPU anyhow
I installed bumbulbee drivers by running the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Crashing issue. Suspect Nvidia drivers
After quite some kerfuffle I managed to get to activate the proprietary nvidia drivers. Chose
xorg:nvidia_current
My attempts seemed successful but now Unbuntu freezes after a minute or two and it ...
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Ubuntu 12.10: Can't set keyboard options with xorg.conf
I created a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard.conf containing
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "true"
Option "XkbOptions" ...
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12.10 does not turn on ATI display after resume using open Xorg driver
I need to know how to manually turn the display on as this does not happen when I resume from a suspend. This is a laptop so it resumes from suspend every time I open the lid. It is painful to have ...
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How to connect Xdmx and android Xserver?
I run:
$ Xdmx :1 -display 192.168.1.137:0
The output:
(II) dmx: Generation: 1
(II) dmx: DMX version: 1.2.20070424 (DMX Project)
(II) dmx: DMX Build OS: Linux ...
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Stuck at “Booting without full network configuration”
After some point, I start having to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf in order to move forward from "Booting without full network configuration". Thus what I do every time I reboot my Ubuntu is to login in ...
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Xorg can't find screens
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. It installed successfully, but whenever I boot into it, after the GRUB screen I get a text TTY. I can log in with that and enter command-line commands.
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