I'd like to be able to raise another application's Window using Python. I did see this, which I suppose I could try: X11: raise an existing window via command line? However, I'd prefer to do it ...

DISCLAIMER: This question has been asked in different forms on Stackoverflow and other venues, but I could get none to work. So I hope someone can help me figure this out once and for all. I need ...

I want to enable x11 forwarding on macOS connected to a Jetson Xavier nx. However, upon connecting: sudo ssh -Xvvv id@host The connection establishes successfully. But in the verbose logs, I'm get...

We have an application which consumes a large amount of data. Currently a desktop app, but we would like to deliver it via the browser. It doesn't make sense to me to create a web app where we nee...

I'm using mininet version 2.1.0. My setup is such that I've to run the mininet command from a remote machine, e.g., ssh -X user@IP python mininet.py X11 forwarding seems to be fine. X forward...

Is there any way to find out if the current session user is running an Xserver (under Linux) ? I've started off with things like: ps -e | grep X but this doesn't work always and one more thing I ...

I'm working on a small application and I need to find the PID of a process given the X11 window ID of its main window or child windows. I saw examples for doing such a conversion using _NET_WM_PID,...

Without a Docker container, it is straightforward to run an X11 program on a remote server using the SSH X11 forwarding (ssh -X). I have tried to get the same thing working when the application run...

My question is similar to a question previously posted but never really answered here: Disable GUI, graphics devices in R I do not like the R tcltk popups for CRAN mirror selection. They also pop...

How do I hide the mouse pointer under X11? I would like to use the built in libraries in order to do this and not something like SDL (SDL_ShowCursor(0)) or glut (glutSetCursor(GLUT_CURSOR_NONE)). A...

This is an exact duplicate of this question; however the code linked in the accepted answer is nearly 11 years old, and this comment in the code leads to my duplicate question: The keysym -> UTF...

I am trying to install a Java application on my Linux machine (Slackware). I have received the following error, and I do not understand it. Could you advise me how to approach the problem? Than...

R version 3.5.2 macOS version 10.14.2 mojave Whenever installing an R, package I see the following warning: Warning message: In doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) : unable to lo...

Consider an application where it's desirable to grab the keyboard when focused in order to capture all window manager commands (Alt+F4 and whatnot) for processing. Now, this has the downside that t...

I have made the following observations: $ xclip text.txt The execution terminates instantly, it copies the content of text.txt to the default selection XA_PRIMARY which means you can paste it th...

Visual Studio Code displays perfectly from a local display on a Ubuntu 20 installation, but just produces a blank white window when run from a remote Ubuntu machine through X-windows. Running code ...

From this article, it states that windows 11 natively supports running of X11 and wayland applications on wsl. I tried to do the same through a docker container, setting the environment variable DI...

I'd like to open an OpenGL context without X in Linux. Is there any way at all to do it? I know it's possible for integrated Intel graphics card hardware, though most people have Nvidia cards in t...

I have a simple java gui (code below) which for some reason when displayed, will "jump" back to it's original position the first time I try to move or resize it. So basically I will have to move th...

I have a VPS which OS is CentOS6.3. I want to run startx via PuTTY and Xming. But, it produces this error: PuTTY X11 proxy: unable to connect to forwarded X server: Network error: Connection refu...

I have a script using java to connect to display X11 in the port 10.0 at localhost but i get always this error java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:10.0' a...

I am using WSL in Windows 10. I have this warning getting displayed when I run a python file: QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-aadithyasb' I can understand th...

How do you setup VcXSrv.exe on Windows 10 to work with WSL2 without disabling access control? Every description on the internet shows to disable the access control, but this allows any program on t...

On X11 I used to use xprop to get information about active windows but on Wayland that tool doesn't work anymore. There have been questions like this, or this one which ask basically the same quest...

When I try to run chromium inside a docker container I see the following error: Gtk: cannot open display: :0 Dockerfile: (based on https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/jess/chromium/dockerfile) FROM...