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The basic graphical display server X.Org, which is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. Alternatives include Wayland.

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Issues with Nvidia drivers on Dell Inspiron 7567

so I've been trying to make my Nvidia drivers run on my linux machine for some deep learning capabilities. Problem is that laptops and especially dell Inspirons have isssues with drivers on unix ...
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paraview: cannot connect to X server

I just installed paraview from Ubuntu repository using: sudo apt install paraview But I get the error below when I try to run it typing paraview in the command line. paraview: cannot connect to X ...
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How to show a non-interactive X session for displaying and periodically reload a webpage?

I have I all-in-one-pc running a webserver. As its display is constantly on, I was wondering how I could use it to display a website in parallel, e.g. the webserver's status page https://localhost/my/...
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running unity3d game on linux minimal

Problem: I created a unity game to work as an infotainment system for a car. Since the "game" will display on the dashboard of a car I want it to boot as fast as possible, with no greeter or reference ...
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Immediate logoff after login on Ubuntu 16.04

I try to quickly summarize the problem and what happened (details about system are below). I know there exist many similar questions however none of the answers did help in my case. I did not fiddle ...
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Resuming from hibernation Color profile Error

When resuming from hibernation I get the following error message: Started Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles. Followed by only an OK button. Then nothing happens, and the x server isn't ...
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Can't open Nvidia X Server settings

This was asked before, but it wasn't answered, so I'm not sure what to do here, After switching to Intel to save battery power in the Nvidia X server settings I couldn't open it any more when I click ...
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How to purge everything related to the GUI

How to reinstall broken Ubuntu (16.04) GUI and purging all the related libraries, and the packages installed from the sources related to the GUI ? Firstly I tried to install the latest version at ...
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Unable to start Ubuntu after installing Gedit dependencies

While I was trying to build Gedit on Ubuntu 16.04, I followed the prerequisite dependencies and installed them religiously. I noticed that I lost my terminal color, and the preinstalled gedit theme ...
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Preserve X between Ssh -X sessions

I have a powerful Ubuntu workstation with EDA tools installed, and several Windows-10 laptops on my network. Laptop Windows users have MobaXterm installed, as an X-server, ssh and sftp clients. They ...
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NVIDIA X Server Settings not executing

I'm facing an issue in Ubuntu 16.04 with NVIDIA X Server Settings application each time I try to execute it, it closes systematically.
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Driver problems with GeForce GT520

I have a GeForce GT 520 dual head in my system and I was experimenting with it. I installed CUDA 9.1 from NVIDIA and it said I should reboot to verify that my graphics driver still loads. So I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 gdm3 starts two X servers and it leads to high CPU usage

CPU usage after login in ubuntu 18.04 is very high, the reason, as i can see, gdm3 starts two X servers for some reason, if i switch to lightdm this doesn't happen, but then i got problem with gnome ...
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Runlevel 3 with nomodeset in kernel to install CUDA 9.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

I am following instructions to install CUDA 9.0 from this link: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/docs/sidebar/CUDA_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf and I am at the instruction: ...
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Headless OpenGL rendering on Google Compute Engine (Ubuntu 16.04)

I created a GPU instance on Google Compute engine with NVIDIA Tesla K80 attached. I have installed GPU drivers and CUDA based on this guide. nvidia-smi check - ok. nvcc -V check - ok Now I am ...
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Unable to login to Ubuntu 16.04 after stopping X server

I was following the top answer from this link: How to install NVIDIA.run? As per instruction I stopped X server and now I am unable to login to Ubuntu. When I boot up it brings me to my login but ...
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why cant i start xsesion

I have a tripple boot configuration(windows on sda1(ssd 256 gb) ubuntu on sdb2(hdd 500 gb) on my laptop and kali on sdb3 and after i resized sda4 so i could have a school partition acessable from any ...
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Problems with X-forwarding and nvidia driver for ssh -X

I have just digged out a T430 Lenovo Notepad with a dockingstation. After installing the nvidia-384 driver through Settings > Software ... > Additional Drivers, I got it running on my 2 screen setup *...
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Changing screen resolution using xorg.conf file

I recently (today) installed Nvidia graphic drivers on my laptop, I followed the instruction on the tutorial and generated a xorg.conf file using nvidia-xconfig. I have am using a laptop and have ...
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How to copy custom Xorg.conf settings automatically on each boot

My issue is with an external graphics card that I sometimes use. When it is plugged in, LXDE changes the DPI settings and text/other items becomes unreadable. The solution is copying this line into ...
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Anydesk and X Server problems

First-time poster here so do pardon me if I don't usse the correct terms. I'm trying to set up a screen in my local computer for my headless VM instance in Google Compute Engine using Anydesk (I think ...
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Change CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X server

In search of a way to create another shortcut for restarting X server. Mainly because I accidentally find myself doing CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE a lot.
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Cannot install xserver-xorg after upgrading ubuntu 16.04 to 17.04

I'm a newbie so if the info I write down in insufficient plz tell me what more to add. I'm trying to use xserver to create a virtual display and launch X to do machine learning using Unity. This is ...
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Shared memory takes gigabytes

I have problems with huge RAM consumption by an unknown entity. It is not listed in top, but the amount of memory available decreases over time and turning off all programs does nothing. Currently, it'...
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How can I display whole Ubuntu XWindow desktop on my Windows PC screen, with Xming

As title, I tried command gnome-session --session=ubuntu from my PuTTY console, but after some seconds, it fails saying something like: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension. gnome-...
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Poor GNOME performance with Intel integrated GPU on Ubuntu 16.04 (Intel HD530 / 4K)

I have a really poor performance in my GNOME Desktop with my Intel HD 530 integrated GPU. On my 4k Screen, everything is unsmooth. Websites with a lot of Javascript load slow and are kind of ...
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Second display(displaylink USB) not updating right in ubuntu 17.10

I'm still a bit new to Ubuntu, I've got an Asus MD169B+ USB monitor that uses the DisplayLink driver and I've got a 1050 ti in my laptop. After a bit of fiddling I've got the driver to work but now I'...
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How to startX as non-root user inside the rc.local?

I am trying to start startx as non-root user in my Ubuntu-server 16.04(Linux nanopim1 3.4.113-sun8i #16 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 13 14:15:57 CEST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux) with openbox installed ...
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Set Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as to kill X server on gnome Ubuntu 17.10

There are many question about this topic and all of them has same kind of answer. With dpkg configuration: sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration With dconf editor: gsettings set org.gnome....
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How to redirect X output to file?

I know with linux the server X that manage Ui is a protocol with client server. So the app that use UI didn't directly render thing. It transmit to server X that render it with hardware. So the ...
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When i try to log in i automatically log out

So when i try to log into ubuntu 17.04 gnome, the monitor blacks out for a few seconds and then i am logout again... and when i try again to log in same happens. All this started because i wanted to ...
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Variant on the NotWakingUpAfterSuspend problem

I looked at many posts about this problem, but I could not find one that solved mine. After I suspend or sleep my computer, it wakes up. I know because CtrlAltF1 shows me a console. But my desktop ...
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Does stopping X server in Ubuntu 16.04 KDE have any negative effect while logged in?

I use Ubuntu mostly for file management on an older PC with KDE installed. I rarely need GUI, most things I do using SSH and Samba unless I am syncing files from my online accounts back and forth or ...
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Kubuntu 17.04: sddm shows only black screen with the cursor

After xserver-core upgrade: xserver-common:amd64 (2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.1 -> 2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.2) xserver-xorg-core:amd64 (2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.1 -> 2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1.2) xmir:amd64 (2:1.19.3-1ubuntu1....
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How to open Mono app with GUI in Linux server without X?

Im running a Mono application whose source code I cannot edit. $ mono app.exe Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for System....
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Mouse and keyboard not working and no cursor on the desktop of Ubuntu 16.04 after installing `xserver-xorg-input-synaptic`

This happened when I installed the xserver-xorg-input-synaptic package, and it requested some packages to be removed. As far as I remember, some of them contained xserverin their names. What should ...
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How do I load an input driver

This is an academic excerise to grow my knowledge. I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 in a VM from alternate install. Installed xinit, openbox, and emulationstation. I have been playing around with ....
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How can I bring the desktop of another user on any TTY while me (unity running on TTY-7) and the other user are concurrently logged in?

Here is the link that i used for reference ... https://journalxtra.com/linux/desktop/multiple-desktops-on-one-linux-pc-now-thats-greedy/ But sadly nothing seems to be working... IS THIS A LIGHTDM ...
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Can no longer use any flavors of Ubuntu as screen randomly flashes black

So since Ubuntu 16.10 was released (and its X server was backported to 16.04.2) I can no longer use any version of Ubuntu. Whether it's Ubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome or Kubuntu, none of them are usable as the ...
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Executing scripts after start X server

I need to run a 24 by 7 batch program. On power failures I already configured Ubuntu Server 14.04 to power up as soon as energy is back, auto login and start the program. The process is based on GPU ...
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Xsession: .xsessionrc is not executed in Ubuntu 16

I have .xsessionrc for fixing Ubuntu's mouse acceleration issue. I have been running Ubuntu 16 for a while and ~/.xsessionrc started on login properly on but recently it stopped doing it. Nothing ...
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How to update xserver to 1.19?

I currently have xserver 1.18.4 installed on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS which I believe causes terrible screen tearing issues on my laptop. I have tried building xserver 1.19.1 from sources using this repo ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 logs me out 10~15 seconds after logging in

A little background info, i had issues playing 10bit video on my laptop. Playback was choppy and full of grey pixelation on vlc. so i decided to install intel graphic drivers. After installing their ...
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X server doesn't detect my second graphic card. ubuntu crashes when I try adding it manually to xorg.conf

I have 2 graphic cards (gtx 1070) attached to the mainboard. lspci detects both cards $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b81 (rev a1) 02:00.0 VGA ...
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Ubuntu with no window manager 95% of time

I want to run Ubuntu on a dedicated NAS I am building. 95% of the time I want to run it in as low power mode as possible (although I do want to run Crashplan on it), so I'd like to disable most X ...
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How do I fix problem with gui login not taking password and kicking me back to login screen?

How do I fix problem with gui login not taking password and kicking me back to login screen? I can login at command prompt, but gui kicks me back to login screen. I do not need to keep any ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - how is the X server started?

I have thought that /usr/bin/startx script is used to start the X server but it looks like it is not true. Which process or script starts the X server? The X server has to be started before lightdm ...
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Nvidia X Server -automatically enable GPU Fan Settings

Unfortunately for Linux users there is no equivalent to the wonderful MSI Afterburner app for controlling your GPU fan. The only alternative I know of is coolbits + the Nvidia X Server Settings ...
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How to get a console terminal to show up on a previously headless server

I've got a previously headless server that I've plugged a monitor into (via hdmi), a keyboard, and mouse. I can ssh to the box. If I start X server with sudo startx over an SSH prompt I get the X ...
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Problem with xServer, Unity and xfce are not working. Problem with driver

I restarted my computer a couple a days ago and since then I am only able to see the lightdm. everytime I login to unity it fails and I end up back at the lightdm login screen. If I login choosing ...
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