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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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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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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Is there a software utility to adjust screen gamma/brightness/contrast?

I use to work at night and it is eye-hurting to watch at lightbulb-bright screens (I've got two - laptop's built-in panel and an external 18-inch CRT) in a dark environment. So I adjust my screens to ...
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How can I xprop or xwininfo Gnome-Do?

I need to see the X properties of the Gnome-Do popup window, in regard to this question that I asked earlier. The problem is that as soon as the Gnome-Do window loses focus it closes, so I can't ...
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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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Kubuntu X11 focus follows mouse Firefox doesn't play nicely

I started using Unix (Solaris) in the mid '90s and, as a researcher, I found the focus follows mouse without bringing the window I was typing in fantastic for making notes while reading papers. in the ...
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"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message

I was trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 here: the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/ Finally I created a new partition sdb8 efi and then Installed Linux successfully. ...
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How to disable my inboard ( intel ) graphic card

I'm pretty new to linux, but I did my best to obtain all information regarding my issue so maybe someone could help out. I have an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook, with Ubuntu 14.04 manually installed. The ...
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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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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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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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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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Can I prevent X from crashing when I unplug my external monitor?

I have a laptop (Acer TravelMate 8471), which I connect to an external monitor, keyboard etc. when I'm at home. When I unplug my laptop, I have to remember to go to the Monitor Preferences and turn ...
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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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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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How to enable or disable GUI in Ubuntu

Say if I wanted to replicate Ubuntu Server and have no GUI running what would I do to make this happen? Upon running htop/top from tty session I see both gnome and xorg are still running and sucking ...
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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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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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Display settings not saved across sessions when using fractional scaling

I have a pc with: Nvidia gtx1080 two 4k monitors Ubuntu 19.10 nvidia xserver installed I changed the scaling and order of monitors in Ubuntu Display settings. However when I reboot or logout/login ...
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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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Graphics problems on Asus EEE 1101 HA, Precise Pangolin

I installed Precise Pangolin x386 Desktop version via USB stick without incident. There are two, possibly related, problems: After suspend (e.g. closing the lid), the graphics are corrupted as shown ...
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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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How do I configure xorg.conf for two X screens on one Nvidia card?

Aims Goal of this post: Figure out what xorg.conf configurations are necessary to use each of my dual monitors as a separate X screen. Intermediate goal for this post: Figure out why I cannot start X ...
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Steam app not launch on X11

I can play games from Steam only in Wayland. However, this displaying does not support screen recorders. Is it any solution to launch Steam in X11 session ? I tried edit on sudo nano /etc/gdm3/...
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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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How to configure TightVNC server to get full Gnome desktop?

I am running tightvnc on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-1031-aws x86_64): $ vncserver :0 -geometry 1980x1080 New 'X' desktop is ip-172-31-14-62:0 Starting applications specified in /home/hc/....
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How to improve FPS performance in Gnome?

Problem: Moving windows, accessing the Activities overlay etc. is jerky and not smooth. I'm running Ubuntu Gnome (hey, soon I'll just be able to say Ubuntu!) on 17.04. My hardware is a 4k screen with ...
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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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Failed to start X server

Everything was ok until I get a dialog box stating: failed to start x server(your graphical interface) It might not be set up correctly. Do you want to view the X server output to diagnose the ...
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20-nvidia.conf in xorg.conf.d doesnt exist

I'm new to GNU/Linux, running xubuntu 15.10 with a GTX 570 graphics card, and am trying to prevent screen tearing in scrolling web pages, videos, and steam games. I get no screen tearing with the PPA ...
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Nvidia DVI/VGA problem

I have a Nvidia GT 630 with two LG Flatron E2242 screens connected. One of them is connected with a DVI/VGA connector because the card has 1 DVI and 1 VGA output. The driver (got the latest one) can'...
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Kubuntu 14.04 hangs at startup after installing fglrx

After installing the new AMD Catalyst beta driver (14.6), my system hangs at the boot screen, however I am able to access the TTY terminals. I installed fglrx as follows: Downloaded the drivers from ...
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Cannot install virtualbox 6.1 on Ubuntu 20.04. The following packages have unmet dependencies

As tittle said, I tried to search for solutions but I can't find anything. Can you suggest another software beside virtualbox? Thank you. sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0 Reading package lists... ...
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Force VESA driver in Ubuntu 16.10

My Ubuntu 16.10 uses i915 driver. For some reasons I have troubles with it. So I want to force X to use VESA. I tried: blacklist i915 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Then sudo update-initramfs -u....
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Nvidia 740M still not working after Bumblebee installation

First of all, I have checked a lot of similar topics, but I still can't get my laptop to use Nvidia 740M. So first things first. I have a laptop Asus X550V (i5-3230, 4gb RAM, Nvidia 740M + Intel ...
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Enabling VSYNC with Nvidia drivers

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with a Nvidia GeForce GT 630M graphics card using the 361.42 Nvidia proprietary driver. I am trying to enable sync to vblank for OpenGL applications, but to no avail. The ...
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How do I disable middle mouse click pasting clipboard?

I am running Kubuntu 20.04. I just noticed that clicking the middle mouse button pastes my clipboard; I don't like that. I cannot find a way to disable this behaviour. I would like to keep middle ...
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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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Blank screen with only mouse cursor (Ubuntu 18.04)

So, I've been experiencing this issue lately. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, GDM/Gnome, default Ubuntu desktop. My graphics driver is nvidia-390 from the graphics-drivers PPA. My graphics card is a GeForce GTX ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 system freezes [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A

My Ubuntu 20.04 system has been affected by occasional freezes (~ each 1-2 days) which completely blocks any interaction (not even REISUB works) and requires pressing on the power button to restart ...
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OpenGL 4.x support on Ubuntu 18.04.2 using Intel UHD 620

I am trying to figure out how to get Ubuntu 18.04.2 to support OpenGL 4.x on my Dell Latitude 7300 laptop with Intel UHD 620 graphics. From this post: How to upgrade Intel Graphics driver? I ...
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ubuntu does not show its GUI interface after installing virtualbox-guest-x11

I am trying to use my Ubuntu on windows Virtualbox. With reference to this page (http://lifehacker.com/how-to-dual-boot-and-virtualize-the-same-partition-on-y-493223329), I managed to boot up Ubuntu ...
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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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sudo xrandr --addmode LVDS1 1976x1080_60.00 X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

When I try to change resolution this comes: $ sudo xrandr --addmode LVDS1 1976x1080_60.00 X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (...
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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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Built-in Screen goes blank when lowering resolution

I have a three monitor setup like this. Everything works fine like this. But whenever I set the Built-in Screen to a lower resolution, the Built-in Screen just goes blank. The other two screens keep ...
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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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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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video-dummy - The Fake display with/without monitor connected at the same time

I have installed the xserver-xorg-video-dummy-hwe-18.04 to let I use the VNC without needs to connect HDMI cable to my ubuntu machine. I followed the Topic here, and successfully able to use VNC ...

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