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Time Tested X Windows Unix Solutions: 51 - 75 of 164
 
I'm new to linux and I've just installed ubuntu. My pc is an old 166 mhz Pentium w/ 64Mb ram and 4.3g hard drive.  The video adapter is S3 Virge-DX/GX PCI.  The display resolution was 800X6...
I'm running Redhat 9 with Gnome 2.2.0. I'm trying to run Etherape. Got everything working...but after a while, my screen goes blank. How do I disable screen blanking? I need to run this app wi...
I have a Toshiba Satellite L355 and I am running Vista home Premium. Recently my computer has started to freeze up and I must reboot it after 10 or 15 minutes. Can someone please help me
I need to be able to launch the  "xhost + hostname/user" command while logged into Linux remotely through a SSH terminal but when I do, I receive the following error:   via SSH - # xhost +o...
I'm using Exceed ( multi-window mode) to start the xterm. But, my xterm background color is white and character color is black.  I want to change the background color to black and character co...
I use recordmydesktop on a regular basis to capture footage of various items.  Until recently, I hadn't bothered with the fact the audio gets missed (audio is in the recording, but it is silen...
I'm trying to get all of the mouse buttons on my Trust MI-6950R to work with Ubuntu 8.10. The mouse has left/right mouse buttons, the scroll wheel (which can tilted left/right as well), zoom i...
I have a HP Thin Client Terminal with Linux on (not windows CE or XP embedded), is there any way I can get the linux terminal to connect into Terminal Services on a Windows 2003 server? (like ...
I Have a linux (FC3) and a Windose machine with cygwin-X and Putty. With no problems i can connect to the Linux server with cygwin with no problem login in and using the KDE/GDM GUI. But now i...
Hi My problem  is that with the mwm window manager (the other managers work fine), my qt project takes in mouse events twice. for example if i click ones only, the click happens twice. I r...
Hi, I am new to XWindows programming. I am interested in creating a simple dialog box with a couple of text input fields and an OK and a Cancel button. (Sort of like a login box). This will...
How do i launch VirtualBox resizing service on KDE startup. When I launch it manually virtual machine screen starts resizing, but it does not add to session to resize virtual machine's X serve...
I am trying to display an X-Windows GUI (ie - Eclipse running on Red Hat Linux) on my PC, which is running Windows XP Pro, using Exceed (in passive mode) and Putty (for the ssh connection usin...
I'm at a windows machine running Cygwin.  I want to display a machine running Red Hat 3. I have  1.  xhost + Red-Hat-machine  2. ssh -l user Red-Hat-machine 3.  export DISPLAY=windows-ip:0...
I have been wrestling with the configuration of X on my Compaq N610c notebook for severals days now.   I installed Redhat 8.0.  During the install, the video adapter was correctly identifie...
I have an IBM ThinkPad Z61m which has an ATI mobility x1400 running Ubuntu Dapper.  The generic driver that came with Ubuntu didn't fully support my screen, so I got the proprietary linux driv...
Hello, I've installed Red Hat 9 on a Toshiba Tecra 8200 (1024x768, Trident CyberBladeXP 16Mb) but the display is rather dim/faded -- it's as if there's a translucent gray layer on top of th...
When accessing samba share in Linux, I receive The semaphone timeout period has expired. The server & connection to windows clients have been working for over 2 years. The smb.conf does not ...
I started gettting the error message that \windows\system32\config\system file was either missing or corrupt.  So I tried to repair the file.  Anytime that I either try to access the recovery ...
Hi, Im running Exceed from my Win XP clinet and trying to connect to a solaris 8 server via XDMCP. Some days it works fine, and other days it doesn't work att all. The X window allways star...
Hello, I'm running Redhat 9.0 with the 2.4.20-19.9 kernel on a Toshiba Satellite. I just finished installing the latest X11R6.6 from x.org. Now, whenever I boot my machine and am presented ...
I'm trying to get the console (X display) screenshot from remote machine. usera is login on the console and use display 0.0. I want to get his screenshot. I'm login using ssh as root, tryin...
I've got a Thinkpad R40 that a client sent to me to fix.  Replacing the keyboard was the easy part, but the Ultrabay doesn't want to identify any IDE devices.  It happily recognizes the floppy...
Hi,    My KDE session froze up and I have a bunch of screen sessions I don't want to loose (so no reboot). How can I restart X or KDE remotely? I have no keyboard and the mouse only works o...
Hi all I am looking to remotely shutdown monitors via ssh but when I try the "xset dpms off" command it tells me it cannot open the display, but when I am on the console, the screen turns o...