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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.

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How can I completely remove X-Windows from Fedora?

A while ago I installed my first Linux server using Fedora 10. I then upgraded to Fedora 11 and realized that I never use X-Windows on the machine, and during each update downloading a huge amount of files I don't need since everything on the…
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SSH X11 Forwarding XInputExtension missing

When trying to open a GUI-program on a SSH-Session with X11-Forwarding (both client and server have X11Forwarding activated) I get this error: Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":4". Application asked to unregister timer…
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Forward already-running X-window-system applications through SSH

I know that it is possible to forward the windows of an X-windows-system application to a client's desktop via SSH when you start the application in a SSH terminal session which has X-forwarding enabled. But is there a way to forward the windows of…
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How can I start an X11 session on my headless Fedora 13 server?

I have a small home server using Fedora 13 as operating system. Since the upgrade to Fedora 13 I cannot start the X11 server. (I need it to use vnc) When I try to start the server, both the nouveau and the original NVIDIA driver claim that there's…
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How do I start a X-application on remote server over ssh?

I need to start a X program on a remote server over ssh. The program should use the remote X-server (no x-forwarding required). What's the proper way to do this?
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Start Xorg using init.d script

Do you have a clean/nice way to only start Xorg server under Ubuntu 9.04 and be able to start/stop it? Something like: # /etc/init.d/xorg start I have an application that doesn't use a window manager (uses Xorg directly) that starts after boot…
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X11 Forwarding: GUI appears in the remote server instead of client

I have two machines, PC1 and PC2. in PC1 I have Msys2 and Xming installed on Windows 7 while in the second machine PC2 I have Windows 10 with Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), Xming is also installed. I configured both machines to…
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Vagrant + VirtualBox + X11 on a headless server

I'm trying to run a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM via Vagrant on a headless server. The VM has ubuntu-desktop package installed, however when the machine boots up I can't open X applications. DISPLAY environment is empty and setting it to ":0" doesn't…
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How to set up a desktop GUI with an Amazon EC2 instance?

I need to get familiar with some software that doesn't run on any of my home machines (windows/mac). So I decided to spin up an EC2 instance and try it there. However, getting EC2 to support a remote desktop session is proving to be harder than it…
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Xmingrc Configuration

With this config file silentexit Styles { emacs maximize } I'm getting the following error ... Release: 6.9.0.31 ... D:\programs\Xming\Xming.exe :0 -clipboard -multiwindow XdmcpRegisterConnection: newAddress…
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How to tell if an ssh session is using x forwarding (if it was run with -X or -Y)

For a given ssh session, is there a way to tell if it has x-forwarding enabled? I.e. you don't know if the session was established with ssh username@address or with ssh -X username@address.
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Install x windows on Centos not working

I'm trying to install x-windows on a remote CentOS 5.3 box. Here's what I did so far: $ yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment" $ echo PATH=$PATH:/etc/X11 $ xinit I had no problem with the yum install. I set the path to…
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Where can I get good X11 terminal fonts?

I've always had a hard time finding fonts that look good in, say, an xterm. The standard "fixed" font (i.e., the one you get by running "xterm -font fixed") is excellent, as is "10x20". Now I'm looking for a bigger version of either of these -- I…
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Which is the best way, if possible, to maintain a remote X session that survives network outages, reboots etc

Even since I read the chapter about X in Unix Haters handbook I still thought that X was one of the things that make unix superior to Windows, since it makes it "possible" to work on machines remotely with a graphical user interface. But after using…
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open terminal via ssh run firefox -> display not found

I want to run selenium tests on a Hudson slave. The slave (i.e. the machine) that will execute the selenium is a Ubuntu 10.04. Thus it has Gnome. Selenium needs a firefox to run. What Hudson does now is, it creates a ssh connection to the Ubuntu…
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