Questions tagged [x11]
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.
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how to use xauth to run graphical application via other user on linux
My regular user account is, let's say, user1. I created separate user2 for some x application that i would like to run while being logged into x as user1 but in a way that will prevent it from read/...
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How can I enable X11 forwarding to a Debian server box?
I want to connect to a server with SSH (a Debian installation in a VMware image). On that server I want to call gitk a repository viewer for git. What do I need to do to make this work?
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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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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 >> /var/log/start_xvfb....
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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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