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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How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question that covers all
instances of "low-graphics mode" error that occurs to a user,
including but not limited to installation of wrong ...
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Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?
As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually ...
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How well will Nvidia Optimus cards be supported in 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How well do laptops with Nvidia Optimus work?
Will Nvidia Optimus be supported in 12.04?It will be improvements in nvidia optimus drivers?
Will no longer need bumblebee ...
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How do I disable X at boot time so that the system boots in text mode?
Is it possible to disable X at boot time? I'm setting up a server so it would be nice if it wouldn't load the graphical interface every time I boot.
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Nvidia driver doesn't work in 12.10
I have GeForce GTX 560 Ti. I's worked fine in 12.04 with nvidia drivers. Unfortunately, after todays 12.10 update, something broke down.
I've tried nvidia-current, nvidia-current-updates and ...
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How to change mouse cursor and theme?
How can I change X11 cursor and theme in the newest Ubuntu?
I can't find it.
Please help.
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Can't use nvidia card/driver on optimus notebook
I installed (once again) the latest official nvidia driver for my GT540m on Ubuntu 11.10.
Even though everything seems OK with my xorg.conf file (I've manually added BusID "PCI:1:0:0", since lspci ...
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NVIDIA drivers not working after upgrade. Why can I only see terminal?
Tonight I upgraded to 11.04. Problems. Once I had finished the upgrade, I restarted my computer as it told me too. When I got past the ubuntu 11.04 (purple background orange dots), it simply went to ...
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How to upgrade intel graphics package?
I have a Intel i7 laptop that does not show any resolution higher than 1280 x 1024. A little bit of research pointed me to a bug and subsequently to a fix. I have 11.10 currently installed. I want to ...
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How does one exit the X server?
The command sudo service gdm stop would successfully disable the X server in Ubuntu 11.04 temporarily.
However, this same command no longer works in Ubuntu 11.10, because "gdm" is an "unrecognized ...
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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 do I boot into single-user mode from GRUB?
After changing a few lines in xorg.conf, I can no longer boot Ubuntu (I assume it breaks when trying to load up X), so I need a way to boot into a single-user mode. However, there seems to be zero ...
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How to install Intel 82852/855GM driver?
When I installed Arch Linux, it detected my video card and monitors correctly "out-of-the box". Now I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and it has not.
How do I configure Ubuntu to use ...
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“You do not appear to be using the nvidia x server”(screenshot included)
I am running ubuntu 11.04 at my asus laptop.
Laptop specs:
CPU: i5-2410M @ 2,3GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: nvidia gforce GT 520M / (also the cpu has a bult-in graphics processor)
I am getting this error when ...
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Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 on 12.10 Quantal: fglrx (legacy) 12.6 unsupported, what to do?
After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is ...
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1answer
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What's the difference between the nvidia-current, and nvidia-current-updates packages?
What's the difference between the nvidia-current, and nvidia-current-updates packages?
The former has a higher version number, and the description of the packages are the same.
Which do I use?
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Cannot get past login screen
I have lubuntu 12.04, and it was working fine until I installed something and I do not remember exactly what I installed because I was trying to build a ruby gem and it required a lot.
now I rebooted ...
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Why isn't my monitor's native resolution appearing as an option? [closed]
I'm on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024. However, in the Monitor Preferences application, I am only presented with 640x480 and 800x600 as options. My ...
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Which nvidia driver from additional drivers option should I choose?
I have NVIDIA Geforece 7025 / nForce 630a integrated gfx card on my UBUNTU 12.04.And I have 4 options in Additional drivers:
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)
NVIDIA accelerated ...
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How to determine which window manager is running
Is there any way (such as a command or environmental variable) to determine what window manager is the one actively running in the current session?
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How do I set the correct monitor resolution with Nvidia drivers for a monitor that does not send EDID?
I keep having trouble getting the correct monitor resolution - every time I reinstall, I happen to use a newer Ubuntu release and the old tricks I used to know no longer work. Instead of leaving a ...
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Triple-head on a Lenovo T520
Lenovo T520 with integrated Intel HD graphics + a NVidia card (Optimus)
Ubuntu 11.10 on the computer.
I would like to use the built-in screen plus two external screens.
This PDF indicates that it is ...
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4answers
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How do I use a DisplayLink monitor?
I'm trying to connect an external monitor to my laptop via a DisplayLink USB adapter. When I plug in the USB cable, the screen turns bright green. This apparently indicates that the udflib displaylink ...
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How to get Lilliput USB monitor working?
Okay, I just got a Lilliput 7" USB Monitor:
Unfortunately, I am having some trouble getting it to work in Ubuntu.
It is a DisplayLink device, so it should work in Ubuntu.
Here is the output of ...
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How to chroot Ubuntu+1?
What is the recommended way to use chroot from Ubuntu Stable (in my case 11.04) with Ubuntu+1 (11.10)?
Linked (but probably separate) is "Is there anything special that I need to do in order to get ...
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Cannot login via Unity login screen after upgrade to 12.04
Logging in via the shell accessed through Ctrl+Alt-F1 and logging in as guest via the graphical user interface work 0O
When I try to log into my standard user account via the graphical interface, the ...
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3answers
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How do you change brightness, color and sharpness from command line?
I am controlling my PC with SSH and scripting. How can i change the brightness, color and sharpness from command line?
Try 1: failed
$ sudo redshift -t 5000:5000 -g .5
Cannot list GNOME panel ...
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0answers
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How do I fix “Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode?” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
First off, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a 30gb partition, the rest of my hdd is for a vista partition. The ...
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2answers
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Where do I get a SIS mirage 672 vga driver?
I need to obtain a display adapter for SiS mirage +3 gpu (closed source), so I can run a stable system on Ubuntu.
I need to find a driver for this adapter that is open source and gives completely ...
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Why is Wayland better?
As recently announced by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu will be moving towards using Wayland as its display manager.
What are biggest differences between X11 and Wayland? Why will Wayland make Ubuntu ...
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How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?
I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into ...
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How to install LLVMpipe?
I hear about the LLVMpipe gallium 3d state tracker that is said to be faster than software renderer. But I cannot find a good instruction from a to z that tell me how to install it. So here I am, ...
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How do I create the .Xauthority file?
I don't have a .Xauthority file in my home folder. I want to create it, please tell me the steps to do so in ubuntu 10.10.
Thank You!
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Virtual Terminal switching with a multiseat setup and lightdm
My aim is to have two seats for my Ubuntu machine. One of the monitors is a USB touchscreen from Mimo with a displaylink chip. I already got it working as main display just by reconfiguring xorg.conf. ...
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Xorg server configuration fail - no screens detected
I have a serious problem with Xorg server on ubuntu 12.04 (with nvidia 420M GT card).
At home I am using an external monitor connected to my laptop's HDMI port - the external display is used as ...
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Where do I have to paste an “xinput” command so that it executes it when GNOME is started?
On my Thinkpad I need to execute something like this in the terminal:
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Middle Button Emulation" 8 1
so that my the 2 buttons on my touchpad emulate ...
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X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix error with ATI driver “Error of failed request”?
Though this question is asked before for 11.10, it's still unanswered. I am using ubuntu 12.04 (on Dell ...
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1answer
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Help! 13.04 installation nvidia driver
I've installed ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop hp 6720s with video card Intel 965 chpset Intel gma x3100.
After the boot the classic purple screen appear and before the login page the screen become black ...
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Application windows do not fit on the screen
Most of the windows does not fit on my hp-mini-210(1024*600)
the apply and close buttons are not fit on scrren and conky too !!
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How do I force a resolution of 1024x768?
back in ubuntu 9, maximum resolution supported was 960x600, by editing xorg.conf i was able to get 1024x768 resolution. i recently installed ubuntu 11.10.. now again maximum resolution i can get in ...
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Could not resolve archive.ubuntu.com when reinstalling xorg
I managed to uninstall xserver-xorg completely, and now all I see when booting Ubuntu is a blank screen. I've tried reinstalling it through shell prompt (recovery mode) but every time I get errors ...
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How can I find what video driver is in use on my system?
I know that sometimes I have the option to change my video display driver, and I can access this functionality by using System->Administration->Additional Drivers. But what's the simple way to see ...
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How can I change the mouse's wheel scroll rate?
I'm using Chrome, and the scroll rate is like 3 lines, and it's painfully slow. My finger gets tired really quickly on long pages. System → Preferences → Mouse lacks any scroll wheel configuration ...
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Free RAM disappears - Memory leak?
On a fresh started system, free reports about 1.5G used RAM (8G RAM alltogether, Ubuntu 12.04 with lightdm and plasma desktop, one konsole window started). Having the apps running I use, it still ...
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Turn off monitor using command line
I am runnning Ubuntu Server on my laptop. There is really no reason for the screen to be on. I have been trying to use this command to turn the screen off:
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
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50-synaptics.conf options not working
How does Ubuntu come up with the default synaptics settings? I've got Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 installed on an Eeepc 900. Out of the box TapButton2 was set to 3, and TapButton3 was set to 2.
I have ...
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How can I toggle between single and dual monitor setup?
I have two monitors working just right with nvidia driver.
There are times, however, where I want to have just one monitor and other times where I need two: I must open NVidia XServer Settings, go to ...
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Cannot make NVIDIA driver work with Ubuntu 12.10
I seem to have a problem similar to many but I didn't manage to get it solved:
have a Lenovo N581 with an NVIDIA GeForce 610M
have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 64 bits, + KDE
and am trying to ...
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Map caps-lock key to middle mouse click
Since I rarely use caps-lock, I'd like to map the key to a middle mouse click instead. I would also like to map Alt+Caps Lock to the original function of the caps lock key, should I ever need it.
I ...
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External Monitor Resolution doesn't go above 1024x768
I am trying to use a 24" external monitor as the primary monitor for my Asus EEE netbook. When I connect it, it works properly, except the max resolution available is 1024x768. Usually, I'd go into ...
