Is there a config entry I can place in my .vimrc which will achieve the same as passing the -X flag when running vim. To provide some context: I recently found that my vim startup time in a screen...

I'm running R-shiny (R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)) on a VM (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4). Everything works, i.e., server starts up, and application runs etc... as long as I don't tr...

I would like to ask about running X-applications via SSH as follows. I have Linux Desktop running SL6.3 with Gnome 2x. On Android tablet running CM9,I have Connectbot and X-Server for Androi...

I have minimal Ubuntu installation in my container and I want to have Xserver running. I need XServer, because my app requires meshlabserver, which itself needs Xserver. I installed xserver-xorg a...

I'm in quite a pickle today. As the title suggests, I'd like to use XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioLowerVolume keys with sxhkd. Mapping them in sxhkd doesn't work (the key isn't recognized). Ot...

I am new to Linux and I had to set DISPLAY variable for running a Java application. Somehow I managed to do that, and I understand that display can be set using <host>:<display>[.<sc...

And if so why? What does X do for me beyond piping my rendering commands to the graphics card driver? I'm not clear on the relationship X - OpenGL. I've searched the internet but couldn't find a c...

I want to know as to how do you detect if a key press event or a mouse pointer event has been generated by an (automation like) application like xdotool. Basically, I am writing an application to c...

I've got a problem that I've already solved on the X-server level (BTW: I'm running Ubuntu 12.04) but not in GVim. I have a German keyboard layout with the letters ö and ä where [ and ] are on a q...

I want to display a jpeg image in xserver using x11. I downloaded imagemagick, but dont' know how to do it. I want to display that image as a child window of another window. Is there any xlib code ...

I'm using xmacro to record keyboard shortcuts, which requires a $DISPLAY to replay on. But, sometimes my $DISPLAY is :0 and sometimes :1, so every time that happens I have to change the value manua...

I'm interested in how can i get a valid font name to use in in .Xresources file. I've installed ttf-ms-fonts and want to switch my terminal to courier font. But setting it like this does't work ur...

Could someone please point me to a place(PDF) where I can find the detail description about the Xserver(Xorg) e.g DIX Layer, OS Layer etc. Specifically I am looking for how to get the complete lis...

When I'm editing XML files in Eclipse (mainly, Android layouts and so), it causes leaks on XServer and it ends eating all my RAM (4GB), so I have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to continue. Do you know any...

I am getting into GUI programming and did some research. Now not everything is clear to me. If I would use GTK+ as toolkit, how does it communicate with the graphics card? On a Linux system I supp...

How can I retrieve the top window of which the cursor is on top of in the X11 server? The window doesn't have to be ”active” (selected, open, whatever), it just has to have the cursor floating on ...

Do all Qt applications require KDE to be installed? Is it enough if the Qt runtime is installed along with GNOME? Can I make a Qt application look exactly like a GTK application under GNOME? Could ...

When using Eclipse over X-Windows on a remote shell (X port forwarding), is there a way to simply detach my X connection and come back to the process later. For a little more clarity, I'm on a Wind...

Where does xhost store the allowed network addresses?

Can someone explain what is the difference between X server and Remote Terminal servers in simple terms? For example, Hummingbird Exceed is an X server and Citrix is a Remote Terminal Server. How ...