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Running multiple user accounts on multiple displays simultaneously

Is it possible to set up a computer (preferably a mac pro) so that multiple users can log in at once, each on their own display with a different keyboard and mouse? We need this for a school setup in which 6-10 students will be using the same number…
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How to clear export DISPLAY=some ip address

I want to clear export DISPLAY=My IP Address that I had given. It has botched up my X settings, so now I just want it to be reset like normal. How to clear this export parameter. Simple set DISPLAY= doesn't work. Please tell me how to achieve this.
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PC POST display rules

When a PC boots, it typically goes through the POST/BIOS phase where it prints things like "detecting drives" or "press any key to boot from CD" and "press F1 to edit BIOS options." I have multiple video cards in one system (it's used for GPU…
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Windows desktop shortcut keeps losing its DPI override setting

We have an internal desktop application developed in C# (Windows Forms). One of our users (Windows 10 64-bit) has her display set to 125% zoom (Display settings > Scale and layout). The application was not designed to work at different zoom levels,…
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Unable to run X server on a remote VPS server using xvfb

My app uses the library https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf which requires X server. Here's a workaround: echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nxvfb-run -a --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf -q $*' > /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh chmod a+x…
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Attach X2Go to X Session ":0"

I don't know if I'm right in concept. But when I connect to a remote host (a cloud VPS) by X2Go, $DISPLAY variable echoes ":50", I need that variable equals to ":0" when I connect to that host. How can achieve this? Thanks in forward.
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Low Screen Resolution on SLES 11.3 KVM guest

I have a SLES 11.3 guest running on KVM on an Ubuntu 14.04 host. When I installed the OS, I selected 'vga' as the QEMU display type. Now that the guest is up and running I cannot change the display beyond the default 800x600 resolution. SaX2…
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Machine based group policy to change display setting

How to change display using computer group policy?
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Strange results in windows search

The other week, I was doing a security audit on my exchange server and at one stage I utilized the windows search functionality. Whilst querying some bits in the search function I run up some strange results in the display pane. A screenshot of my…
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Share one monitor and input devices (mouse & keyborad) between two different computers

Is it possible to share a monitor and the input devices (keyboard & mouse) between two different machines? For the monitor case, I believe the answer could be straightforward: connect two different input cables, attach a cable to each of the…
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Dell PowerEdge 1850 Amber Light

Update: I swapped my power supplies in the back and everything started powering up, fans RPM was monentarily higher than idle, with a blue light on front. Then the amber came back for a moment, then back to blue. However my USB devices are not…
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windows xp home edition - blocking users from changing display settings

I am computer admin for a call center and i want to block all user accounts from changing the Display settings. nothing i found online helped with xp home edition.
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Hiding monitor from windows, working with it from my app only

I need to use a monitor as a "private" device for my special application, I want to use it as a flashlight of a sort and draw special patterns on it in full screen. I don't want this monitor to be recognized by OS (Windows 7) as a monitor. I.e. user…
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HP Tx1000 laptop : no LCD panel or HDD activity

A HP TX1000 Series laptop PC is unresponsive to the power-on event. What was a previously working machine, the LCD display panel suddenly switched off while the machine was in normal operation. When the machine is switched on now, the machine…
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Multi-monitor RDP session on an EC2 instance running Windows Server 2008 R2?

When I RDP into a Windows Server EC2 Instance I'd like to be able to use multiple monitors. It doesn't have to be RDP, but I want to be able to have multiple monitors, not a spanned display. I've tried: Checking: Use all my monitors for the remote…
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