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Questions tagged [display-server]

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How to set absolute mouse cursor position in Wayland without using mouse?

The question is pretty straight forward. What I would have used under X [xdotool] obviously does not work moving forward, and no obvious new solutions have arisen given the relative new adoption of wayland. Solutions which require programming are…
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Set up display orientation and resolution on an embedded Linux

we have an embedded PC with an Linux OS which seems to be an Debian/Ubuntu derivate with RT-Preempt patch. At this pc we attached a display (7" 1024x600 170 DPI) via DVI. We are need to run the output in portrait and only basic X11 (not a complete…
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How to stop nvidia-settings creating new xorg.conf?

I've searched many times for an answer but have NEVER found a good and proper answer that fixes this annoying problem when using Nvidia drivers for Linux. Everytime I reboot the system, nvidia-settings creates a NEW xorg.conf file, backing up my own…
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Running autonomous application on screen

I need to set up a linux box in a way in a way in which there is one screen that displays a web page (like an ad on a projector or something) and another screen that is a workspace for an employee with some desktop enviroment running (i.e. a monitor…
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Virtual Machine in QEMU/KVM does not recognize some shortcuts with the key

Background I am running Awesome WM inside my virtual machine. From Awesome WM's guide: Mod4+h, Mod4+l, Mod4+Shift+h and Mod4+Shift+l to resize windows. In which is synonymous with or the Windows button. But the and …
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How do GUI toolkits and window managers make use of a display server?

I am trying to understand how different components of a Linux system interact with the services offered by a display server. Before complicating the question with Wayland-based display servers, let me first focus on X11: I know that in order to…
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Is Wayland display server a userspace process?

For X11, I can see the display manager gdm3 (indirectly) launches a process named Xorg, which is the display server. However when using gnome on wayland, I do not see any children (or grandchildren) of the gdm3 process that could server as a display…
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Is there any Debian Distro out there that ships without xorg?

I am writing a bash script to help new Linux users install Debian desktop environments easily but most of some packages rely on xorg. I think it might not work properly if no xorg is found on the target user machine. I really need to know if there…
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Unable to open display - error

I ran the command below on secureCRT ssh client: $ DISPLAY=abc.xyz.com:0 ; export DISPLAY $ /bin/xhost +abc.xyz.com But it output this error: /bin/xhost: unable to open display "abc.xyz.com" # cat /etc/system-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux…
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Display Servers with Wayland

I am researching differences between xorg and wayland and am being confused by one thing. X11 runs with the Xorg server and a separate window manager for compositing, and Wayland uses display servers that also handle compositing. What confuses me is…
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Server side vs Client side rendering Display server

For the past few days I've been reading discussions about X.Org vs Mir vs Wayland and the way they differ from each other. I've read the following at Wikipedia: A display server or window server is a program whose primary task is to coordinate…
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Virtual Gl host and display from same pc?

I'm trying to set up a virtual gl client to connect with an Xvfb display from within the same pc. I start up the client and then try to connect to it from the other display and it says the connection is refused. I can paste the specific error when I…
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How to launch WESTON with no input devices

Been working on a project to create s simple digital display using the Raspberry pi 4 and buildroot. It is a simple application that interacts with the user through bluetooth and displays some information on the attached HDMI screen. All the…
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How do I know which Windowing system, display server and a window manager I am running on GNU/Linux?

I really liked following diagram from Wikipedia which shows how different graphical components are connected to each other.: As per my understanding, here 1) "graphical interface" is closely related to what we know as "Desktop Environment" as…
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How to use a x-terminal

I recently revived a hp 700/RX x-terminal and I wanted to try and set it up for fun but I don't know how to make a x-Linux server to connect to. I also think I need a bnc connector to connect it. I do have a bnc Ethernet card to link the computers.…
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