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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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Weak points of ssh tunnel and x11 server, hack investigation

So, today I've been hacked. It's very puzzling to me how it was done, so I'm looking for experienced people to show weak points in design of my systems. I have two servers. One is VPS with connection to internet (server1), second one is server…
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Have GPU Passthrough working both Windows and Linux guests but libGL SDL error linux couldn't find matching glx visual NX x2go freenx

I have GPU Pass-through working with KVM qemu with both Windows 7 and CentOS guest but with Windows I can easily RDP with Remote Desktop mstsc and even run 3D accelerated apps that will make use of the OpenGL acceleration etc. I don't care about…
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How can I start X server ons boot?

In most case I login to the server as a root and start the X server manually by calling the startx function. After the I can use X11 forwarding. However I would like to know how can I start X11 as a service on boot time?
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Logging in to X-Windows with advanced .profile

I have just upgraded one of my systems to Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04). (A long-overdue upgrade from Lucid. Youch!) When I try to login to X Windows, I get a ~/.xsession-errors file with these contents: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session…
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Possible to place two workspaces on one screen in X Window?

Sometimes I'd like to copy write something from one window to my editor or compare something. So if I can put two workspace2 in one screen, so I can easily drag two windows to different workspace and get both fullscreen, and then start work on one…
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Running Firefox as a restricted user

For security reasons, I would like to run Firefox under a different (underprivileged) account. I thought it would be as easy as setting up a user and then run with gksudo, but it appears that there is more to it. What am I doing…
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How do I set a default window manager for XDM?

I would like to setup XDM so that all users are logged into the Blackbox window manager by default (without adding a .xsession file to each home directory). Any clues?
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Cygwin X crashing on -multiwindow option

A shot in the dark, but can anyone point me in the right direction? Thought this might be similar to this bug (http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/1-9-2-0-Xwin-SIGSEGV-when-font-server-should-be-queried-td65322.html), but it's years old, and my…
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Centos 6 x2go dependancy issues when trying to run yum update

I have tried to update x2goserver to the latest version on my CentOS server however I am getting a dependency issues now. From what I can tell it is looking for xorg-x11-fonts-core package. This appears to not be part of CentOS 6 and only OpenSuse.…
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shipping default xorg.conf file in ubuntu 12.04

With recent versions of Ubuntu, there's no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file being shipped anymore. That's good as long as you don't have a Nvidia graphics cards and you want to use multiple screens, in which case you have to allow normal users to write to…
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Xming fails to display Quartus II 9.0

Attempting to run Altera Quartus II (2) 9.0 on a remote RHEL5 Linux (2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 kernel 64-bit) box over a SSH connection via PuTTY 0.62 and a local Xming 6.9.0.31 X server running on Windows XP/Win7. I have set PuTTY up to forward X11 and…
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Problems opening Gedit using X11 in new Ubuntu installation

I've just installed Ubuntu 11.10 and created a new user (and added them to the sudo group). When I log in as the new user (not root) and try to open gedit I get the following error: ** (gedit:17414): WARNING **: Could not connect to session…
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xorg.conf missing in Debian

I'm attempting to configure X on a headless server. I've installed the xorg, tightvnc, and fluxbox but /etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing. I've run xorg -configure and it gives fails giving the following error: No devices to configure. Configuration…
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Can I use Upstart to start a script which requires the user's X session?

I wrote a script which greps through the output of synclient to determine whether a laptop's touchpad has miraculously turned itself off (Ubuntu seems to /love/ doing this recently) and, if so, turns it back on. The script is something like…
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Linux equivalent to RDP and TS Gateway

Windows, TS and TS Gateway: A wonderful combination for remote working. How can you deliver a similar user experience with Linux as the server side platform? Ideally the clients would be Windows, but could be anything.
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