Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [x11]

X11 is Version 11 of the X Window System, commonly used on Linux, BSD, and Unix systems to provide the lower level graphics, input, and window management API's that higher level desktops such as GNOME and KDE build upon.

X11 is Version 11 of the X Window System, commonly used on , , and systems to provide the lower level graphics, input, and window management API's that higher level desktops such as GNOME and KDE build upon.

The primary open source implementation is now published by the X.Org Foundation on the www.x.org web site. Version 11 was first released in 1987, and while many subsequent releases have occurred since, they have maintained backwards compatibility with the Version 11 protocols and APIs.

More information:

174 questions
0
votes
2 answers

Loading GUI on host machine through SSH with X11 forwarding

I've got applications on my host machine running fine by doing: $ssh -X user@host Welcome to host $firefox Firefox proceeds to run in client display from the host machine. How do I get firefox to load on the host machine's display so I could…
cdated
  • 199
  • 1
  • 1
  • 9
0
votes
3 answers

Which files do control XMonad’s startup in Mac's X11?

My X11 crashes if I have the following .xinitrc My .xinitrc exec /Users/Masi/.cabal/bin/xmonad I am not sure where the bug is. Files which I know affects the startup are ~/.cabal/bin/xmonad (perhaps): ~/xmonad.hs ~/.xinitrc I have completed the…
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
  • 809
  • 6
  • 22
  • 43
0
votes
1 answer

Strip X Window System from OpenRD (Fedora core 8)

I just got myself an OpenRD Client embedded box with an old Fedora 8 on it. Runs like a charm, only problem is that the default install has X on it, which I would like to remove in order to free up some space. I found a similar post here on the…
Alexander T
  • 287
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
3 answers

X11 on a dedicated server

I discovered X11, and I was wondering if it is possible to install it on a dedicated server, and have a "desktop" from the server running on my personnal computer ? Or maybe it is necessary for the server to have a screen ? Or a least kde or gnome…
Matthieu Napoli
  • 421
  • 1
  • 5
  • 11
0
votes
1 answer

`xrandr` lost ability to position external monitor with high resolution

TLDR How can I understand and overcome xrandr errors such as X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 7 (RRSetScreenSize) Serial number of…
jacg
  • 363
  • 1
  • 3
  • 6
0
votes
0 answers

X11 forwarding through WSL

I would like to connect to a remove linux machine via ssh from my windows machine, and forward the x11 server from that machine to mine to be able to view small interactive windows like those generated by matplotlib (with the qt backend). Since the…
ShinyDemon
  • 1
  • 1
0
votes
1 answer

Disallow/remove shutdown/restart options on Xfce4

I am using a RHEL8 server system as jumphost - connection to it from the windows-world with tls 1.2/rdp and then Xcfe4 as X11 base for applications in need of X-windows. My questions are about the poweroff-button on the upper right corner of…
Nils
  • 7,695
  • 3
  • 34
  • 73
0
votes
1 answer

Watermark for VNC displays

Are there any feasible options for adding a watermark (i.e. diagonal transparent text) to VNC sessions? I did not find such features provided out of the box for the existing open-source VNC servers. Gateways / proxies like Apache Guacamole don't…
Michael
  • 239
  • 1
  • 4
  • 9
0
votes
1 answer

X11 Forwarding on Ubuntu Server

I have a computer running Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS and wanted to know if it is possible to run GUI apps from it over X11 without having a GUI on the server? I also have programs that I want to run through Wine and forward the interface over X11. Is…
Jason O
  • 159
  • 1
  • 2
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

X11 forwarding on docker container

I'm trying to run GUI apps inside of my docker container and resolve them on the host. I have tried several variations of this command but it always comes back to the same response: Unable to find image 'kali:latest' locally docker: Error response…
sololuvr6969
  • 1
0
votes
0 answers

How to connect/reboot to PC without monitor or remote access? Accidentally enabled X11 and can't undo it

I recently tried setting up an Intel NUC for remote access but it required a display to be connected -- I am using Ubuntu 18.04 (maybe 20.04, I can't check). So I installed the X11 dummy driver according to this:…
Mike
  • 13
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

SSH server refuses multiple connections from same client

I have a simple openssh server running in a Alpine Linux 3.15 Docker container, and a client, also running on another Docker container (same version of Alpine of the server) that runs a X server with dwm The client is able to open a graphical…
henriquehbr
  • 113
  • 7
0
votes
0 answers

Detect Windows X server display number from Linux (client of X)

Our team often connect to a Windows server through remote desktop (RDP). Inside RDP, we use Putty (a terminal emulator) to connect to a Linux server. Sometimes we launch X-Win32 (an X server for Windows) in RDP and run an X application on Linux to…
yong321
  • 125
  • 3
0
votes
1 answer

No /dev/dri after upgrading to 21.04

Recently upgraded from 20.04 to 21.04, which installed kernel 5.11. Now it fails to start X with correct screen dimensions, due I assume to this in Xorg log: [ 23.307] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory If I boot the 5.4 kernel,…
Austin
  • 23
  • 1
  • 6
0
votes
1 answer

$ xclock PuTTY X11 proxy: unable to connect to forwarded X server: Network error: Connection refused Error: Can't open display: XX.XX.XXX.XX:10.0

I getting below error when running xclock command to one RHEL 7 server $ xclock PuTTY X11 proxy: unable to connect to forwarded X server: Network error: Connection refused Error: Can't open display: XX.XX.XXX.XX:10.0 I did set below setting in…
Newlinux-men
  • 15
  • 1
  • 5
1 2 3
…
11
12