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How to run a X application on windows without the tech stuff like terimal and commandline? [closed]
I want to run a single X application from a linux host on a Windows OS. I want to see only the X application window, no PuTTY cmd or cmd.exe nor cygwin cmd.
I have tried Xming and Cygwin/X, but I ...
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How do I get X11 Forwarding to work on Windows with PuTTY and Xming? [migrated]
I've always wanted to get X11 Forwarding to work with PuTTY, and the X Window System I'm using is Xming. When I have Xming running and I establish a new connection to my server, I receive the ...
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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 ...
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Swapping Behaviour of Win and Alt key in Solaris 10 CDE
I'm using a PC keyboard on Solaris 10 Machine running Common Desktop Environment (CDE). My default keyboard mappings are
Win-Key => Meta
Alt-Key => Alt
which is very frustrating to use in Emacs ...
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Best font for sharing gvim (on Linux) under Windows 7 and Cygwin X-Server?
I have the following setup:
Working machine (don't ask why) is under Windows 7, 64 bits, with installed Cygwin on in. There I have installed an X-Server and I am able to open an xterm locally there.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Will a remote X-Windows session run faster if I install a better video card in the remote server?
I don't know much about X-Windows. Sometimes I run a remote X-windows session to an HP DL380 host from my MacBook Pro on the same LAN. I'm using X11 forwarding with the ssh -X option. The X-Windows ...
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Problem opening XWindows programs with xming and SSH Secure Shell
I've installed SSH Secure Shell and xming on my laptop running Windows 7 (64-bit). I'm having trouble starting X Windows applications from the SSH console. I've been able to do it in the past. I've ...
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Getting Xvfb to start upon booting system in Ubuntu Maverick
I'm trying to get Xvfb to run when the system starts up on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), but it's not working. In /etc/rc.local, I have the following:
/root/start_xvfb.sh >> ...
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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 ...
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how to copy text from xterm based terminal to some other gui application on linux
i use uxrvt ( for those who dont know, its terminal emulator based on xterm).
i know its easy to copy/paste stuff from terminal to itself is a trivial thing. it can be done by mouse left click to ...
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latest openbox Yum package standalone install centos
i am trying to install openbox on centos.
when i try yum install openbox
i get
no openbox package available
nothing to do
how can I install this standalone with the yum command?
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Suse Enterprise: gnome just output background image, no start menu etc
I downloaded the source code of Apache2 and tried to compile and install Apache2 server (the reason I chose to compile from source code is that the RPM I got did not support httpd + svn integration)
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Is it possible to run X on a ESX Service Console?
Ok, we all know (or should know) the ESX Service Console isn't actually a Linux system, but a custom Linux distribution running inside the ESX hypervisor, in order to allow its management.
Yet, ...
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Allow X Client Display through TCP on Lucid
On Karmic, to allow other PCs to open and X-Window on a station, one had to edit /etc/gdm.conf and change DisallowTCP to false. That file no longer exists on Lucid. I tried changing an entry in ...
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Strip X Window System from OpenRD (Fedora core 8)
I just got myself an OpenRD Client embedded box with an old Fedora 8 on it. Runs like a charm, only problem is that the default install has X on it, which I would like to remove in order to free up ...
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X server for Windows
I'm looking to run Cygwin xterm on my machine. For this I need an X server, which one would you recommend?
It's important that it won't leak memory too much, and that it would be fast enough to allow ...
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Karmic Koala (Ubuntu): enable remote x clients through TCP
It seems every version of Ubuntu has a different way to enable remote connections to the local X server.
I'm asking this question, while I do my own research: how can I enable the X server listening ...
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Do I need X + gnome?
I'm trying to reduce the size of a few solaris installations I have. These are headless T1000 machines running solaris 10. Serving as oracle, apache and jboss servers, is there really any reason to ...
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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 ...
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Xmingrc Configuration
With this config file
silentexit
Styles {
emacs maximize
}
I'm getting the following error
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Release: 6.9.0.31
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D:\programs\Xming\Xming.exe :0 -clipboard -multiwindow
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How do I create additional X sessions to choose from on the login screen?
I'm attempting to give users a choice of customized UIs when they login. One will be a standard Gnome session. The other would be a custom UI. I'm not sure if its possible to base the custom UI off of ...
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What hardware thin clients are available for connecting to Linux with XDMCP (or similar)?
I'm chasing a thin client that can connect to an Ubuntu machine and utilize a modern widescreen LCD.
I have used Sun Microsystems SunRay 150 thin clients for several years however the SunRay Server ...
