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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 do I view an X display on a remote host from OSX

I'm running an X server in a under xvfb in an Ubuntu 14.04 Virtualbox VM. The X display is used to run Firefox and Chrome for some Selenium tests. I want to be able to view the contents of this display in real-time from OSX, to debug these tests. Is…
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Restrict user changing xscreensaver settings

I would like to know any solutions people came up with restricting a user from changing a system wide configuration of xscreensaver. Part of my job is managing systems which have a requirement that the desktop locks in about 10 minutes and can only…
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Xvfb not working on Red Hat Linux

I'm trying to get an X server going on a headless box and I'm using Xvfb. Invocation: Xvfb -fbdir . & Result _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Message…
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Change resolution by console

I changed my ubuntu screen-resolution and now it's everything black and I can't change it againd to the old resolution. What do I do? Thank you.
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X11 performance problem after upgrading from Centos3 to Centos5 with an ATI Rage XL

After upgrading a computer from Centos3 to Centos5 an application that does a lot of scrolling took a very high performance hit. top tells me that X is using a lot of CPU and that was not happening before. The machine has an ATI Rage XL with 8MB and…
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Forwarding X11 with one hop without X-server installed

problem I want to run X-applications remotely on a machine C from my client A. The only way to connect to this machine is by using machine B (firewall) as a hop: A --> B --> C So far, simple ssh works as expected, however I can't get X11 forwarding…
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Identify mystery output on ssh login

How can I find where this dbus-launch error output is coming from? At first I thought it was related to motd but I currently have that disabled. X11Forwarding is turned off in my sshd_config as well as PrintMotd. It seems that something is trying to…
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Disabling user switching when admin locks screen

Well, pretty much what the subject says, is it possible to forbid users from using the "Switch User" feature when the screen is locked by an administrator? I'm not sure if user switching is a GNOME or X feature.
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amazon EC2 x11 problems

We are trying to set up a virtual development / research cloud environment for our students. Students need to be able to log-in, launch python IDE, and plot some graphs for their homework. We are running 64bit Ubuntu 12.10, with Python and IDLE ide…
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Connecting to remote host via putty

I am getting the following error when i try to connect to a remote host. Can't connect to X11 Windows server using "0:0" as the value of the display variable. How do i get past it? Other info: I am running a windows machine and the host is unix…
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How to configure RHEL so users can access an app GUI remotely

I have an application installed in my RHEL6 box that has a GUI (AppGui.sh). My problem is that a few non-tech users would like to access this GUI remotely. I've tried several guides over the internet but I still cant make it work. I…
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How can I launch a GUI session on a remote Ubuntu Desktop via SSH from a non-GUI Linux shell?

I am setting up a test environment, made up of various Linux boxes, and I have the need to launch an instance of Firefox on a remote machine via ssh. The remote machine has Ubuntu Desktop (11) and Firefox installed. The source machine is a…
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X app over ssh server without X server

in ssh with ssh -CX user@remoteA I can launch a xterm and see in my local desktop. if I have a linux server (remoteA) without X server and a remote linux desktop (remoteB) with a X server. If I connect with ssh to remoteB over remoteA local…
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Removing "X Windows System" and Gnome using Puppet

I'm trying to remove unnecessary services like XWindows and Gnome on production RHEL/CentOS machines using Puppet (I don't get to install the OS). From what I can tell, "groupremove" isn't supported/recommended yet, because it's not quite the…
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Solutions for exporting a remote desktop app (display and audio)

I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to export a desktop app running on a server to a client machine. The server is ideally Linux, the desktop is Windows (+Mac for icing on the cake). The export should be encrypted and I need to support…
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