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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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Copy file from real home into DynamicUser home

I am working on restricting the permssions of user units in SystemD. One of the things that I want to do is set ProtectHome=yes (or DynamicUser=yes), but the process needs access to the .Xauthority file (as it needs to communicate with X). I…
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X11 configuration on Ubuntu 18.04. Worked on Ubuntu 16.04

Here is a script which is run in cron for user1 who has sudo privileges export DISPLAY=:0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/user2/.Xauthority scrot -q 30 "/tmp/%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M_screen.jpg" 2>/tmp/err It worked fine on Ubuntu 16.04. When upgraded…
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Slurm Error: “If using PrologFlag=Contain for pam_slurm_adopt, either proctrack/cgroup or proctrack/crau_aries is required.”

I'm using the flag x11 (PrologFlags=x11) in my slurm.conf file and jobs with x11 works perfectly, but I am getting this error every time I run a slurm command (e.g. sbatch, srun, sacctmgr): scontrol: error: If using PrologFlag=Contain for…
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Forwarding X11 between Windows > Linux Server1 > Linux server2

I got this problem... My machine is a Windows(S1), who needs to connect to a Linux Server(S2) [used like a jumpbox], to connect with Linux Server(S3), which is the target machine. I got Putty and Xming well configured, since I can open Firefox…
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Thin Client setup for nomadic developers

I'm supporting a team of ~10 developers. Each developer machine is running Ubuntu 16.04.1 and each developer has their own desktop tower. This setup works well but locks that developer to their desk. What I'd like to do is place all their…
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xauth, ssh and missing home directory

We have several servers, and normaly everything works fine, except now... we get a new aircondition installed. This takes 36 hours and for this time almost all servers got shutdown, only 2 remaining servers run for the most important tasks (i.e.…
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Cluster SSH on KDE fails: cssh error 'bad pad value "3m'

I'm having issues getting clusterssh running on a RHEL7.3 install using KDE. I don't believe this is a Perl issue, as I have forwarded X from a CENTOS7 box that yields the same error (That box has no problem forwarding cssh from an Ubuntu/Gnome…
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Azure and RHEL - "Can't open display :1"... sometimes

I have an RHEL image on Azure that we launch to perform some specialized tasks. There is not an option to actually keep the service running. However, sometimes on startup, when I attempt to run even just xeyes, I get the following error: $ xeyes …
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How to get X11 GUI from AWS EC2 instances through Proxy server

We have wired situation, we have one aws EC2 Redhat7 instance. We connect to that instance with a http proxy and authentication. Now we have to get GUI from the instance to install some GUI based applications. We have installed x11 packages, and…
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CentOS 7 w/Gnome hangs on boot after Nvidia driver installation?

there is a lot of information available on these topics separately, but I haven't been able to find an answer to what I feel is a really common situation. I have 2 Nvidia GTX 1080s in a server with CentOS 7 and Gnome desktop. The GPUs are going to…
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X11/X forwarding between two remote machines

Suppose that there are 3 machines, A, B, C. B and C are on the same network, whereas A is remote. Connection between B, C is very fast, but any connection from A to (B or C) is slow. I would like to run a computationally intensive job on C…
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Xrandr error when accessing Debian VM over VNC

I have Debian 8 with XFCE running on vmware virtualization. If I work on the console of vSphere no problems. If I connect over VNC (thighVNC) using "my-hostname:1" I have some problems (I guess the two problems are connected): 1) If i want to to to…
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Run mysql-workbench remotely, no proxy/or tunnel

We are on AWS, with a MySql RDS. The RDS is set up so that only clients that are on the VPC can access it. (Just being VPN'd in is not good enough) So I assume that I could set up a tunnel,proxy, etc... But the questions was raised if it were…
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How do diagnose laggy X11 applications running via ssh forwarding?

I am running an X11 application on a RHEL machine on my Windows system using Xming and X11 forwarding over SSH. The responsiveness seems terrible. A second between keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc. When I ping the linux box from my windows…
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GUI on Amazon Linux AMI

I have Amazon Linux AMI 2015.09 and i need to use some GUI application on it. When i tried to install desktop environment i found out that there are no any X11 packages on repos. I tried to use CentOS repos but it's caused conflicts with pre…
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