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Questions about the graphical display server of the X Windows System. This is the process managing the desktop. In various remote desktop solutions (VNC, XDMCP), it has a client role from an end-user view, they do not belong here.

A graphical display server compatible with the X Display Protocol, which is a network-transparent windowing system used commonly in the Unix world. Its official reference (and also most commonly used) implementation is X.Org . Alternatives include Quart/X, Cygwin/X or Wayland.

Responsible for communication with

  • X Clients, these are the GUI programs appearing on the display. X clients can connect it over TCP (if remote) or on unix socket (if local).
  • User input devices (keyboard, mouse, touch screen)
  • 2D graphical display
  • possibly with the 3D accelarator

It also has a specific client which manages windows on the display, the window manager. In maintains also a clipboard.

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Linux - launch recordMyDesktop by ssh tunnel

I made a script (name : "recordVideo") that launch recordMyDesktop to capture a window. this script is on a computer-1. With computer-2 I want to launch the script with ssh. Here is my script on computer-1 : #!/bin/sh cd…
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Detect if X is running and if it's usable for application

On a POSIX-compliant system, how do one detect if X is running and if it's usable for the application.
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X Server crashes when I try to change settings in Eclipse on remote Linux node

I've written a C++ application in windows, and want to be able to run it on a Linux cluster node without using Wine. I therefore tried to connect to a cluster node (with an X Server running) and once connected tried to compile the code in Eclipse…
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Kubuntu 12.04 : starting load fallback graphics devices [fail]

Just after booting, while Kubuntu loads its modules and checks all of it, this message appears and the loading work stops. As a matter of fact the Kubuntu's login screen never comes and it switches automatically on the tty1 in console mode. So I…
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Export display application

for my job, we are searching for an application which allows us to do export display. The specifications are : clients use Windows/Linux System server is a Linux Red-Hat 6 cluster there are OpenGL based applications on server side. they must be…
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Disable global hotkeys for window

I am making RDP GUI for myself and i would like all key combinations handled by RDP session. I use freerdp for handling RDP stuff, it has handy flag where i specify winId() of qt widged to embed RDP window to. Everything works except for few keys.…
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change color of window in win 7

I'm using cygwin/X-Sever to ssh into several other machines and then open the same control pannels on each machine. Is it possible to color the Top window bar differently for each one? Either using X11 or windows? Clientside: Win7 -…
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Running a QT-GUI program on Ubuntu Server

I want to run cmake ( A build tool) which has a QT-GUI on my Ubuntu Server VM. I am currently getting the following error: cmake-gui: cannot connect to X server I would really appreciate any help or guidance on what to do to get it going. I…
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XPending() reports error on window close

In a call to XPending() I get following error message in terminal: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" This happens after I click the close button on the window (the cross in the corner). Otherwise the…
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Is it possible to theme GUI applications with custom Python window manager?

I'm trying to create a simple custom window manager in Python using xlib (based on Whimsy and PLWM). Is it possible to skin the default look of GUI applications, e.g. the default scroll bars or buttons, using just xlib? Or does this need to be done…
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linux X server unexpected quit when Java started

I am using opensuse linux, with proprietary Nvidia video driver. I found that when I try to plot a 3d figure using "surf" in Matlab, or start the emulator in Android Studio - which all calls some function in Java- the X session just quit. I have to…
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Create script to login and change time on Darwin

I work for a non-profit and recently had to take on some sysadmin responsibilities, and and it is a new area for me. We have a Apple X Server that is running Darwin, and from time to time, especially on reboots, the timer on it gets out of sync…
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Redirecting only graphics of a X client to another X server?

Support I have two computers. Each computer has a X server running. And one of the computers also have some GUI applications running on it. Now I want to keep the GUI applications still running on the same computer, and they're still getting…
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Hg clone fails with "Cannot connect to X server"

On a machine where I have only SSH access, hg clone suddenly fails: hg clone http://cls@ : cannot connect to X server Why is X server involved at all? How can I fix this?
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How is XGetWindowProperty() and XListProperties() related for a particular window-ID

A "PropertyNotify" Events is generated by xServer for a Window say with id var "win". Now i call xlib function XGetWindowProperty() and XListProperties() for same win-id as given below int getProp(Atom atom, Window win, unsigned long…
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