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xinit is a Unix command that starts the X Window Server.

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I have a C++ application that uses OpenCV to display GUI windows. I am running it on an embedded Linux board, but I don’t want a full desktop environment. Manually, I can start it with: xinit /path/to/...
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I am running OpenBSD on a laptop with X windows starting on f5 vtty via Xenodm login manager. I am unable to start another session of X from different vtty.  xinit or startx fails with Fatal server ...
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I have a single-board computer (Libre Computer Le Potato) that I'm trying to use to run a wall display. I want it to automatically launch X after it boots, and start Firefox. Currently, I can get as ...
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me@pop-os:~$ xinit -- :2 vt3 X.Org X Server 1.21.1.4 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Current Operating System: Linux pop-os 6.6.6-76060606-generic #202312111032~1702306143~22.04~d28ffec SMP ...
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since yesterday I run an issue with my GUI. I installed fresh arch Linux and I can not keep running bspwm-git, after login I get login console again. Here is my .xinitrc #!/bin/sh userresources=$...
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I am setting my keyboard layout using this command on every startup: setxkbmap us,cz -variant ,ucw -option grp:caps_switch How can I write this configuration in to xinitrc file so xserver loads it ...
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I went to have breakfast while my laptop was running an Xorg session, now the screen doesn't turn on no matter what I do. I tried switching ttys, no dice. I ran a program using startx, my distro is ...
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I would like to know if I could connect to a wine desktop interface, like I do for Cinnamon, KDE or else. I've noticed that wine doesn't use the x-server, but the wine application to load window ...
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I've installed xorg, xdm and fluxbox onto a GUI-less minimal Debian virtual machine instance (on GCP), then I've tried to run an application chromium or google-chrome with GUI. The execution of the ...
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I have a VM at virtualbox in Windows 11 The VM is Debian 11 (bulleye or something like that) After installing (great!) and configure the resolution as it told here: https://www.ronaldtoussaint.nl/2018/...
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Running debian testing, no display manager, i3 window manager. gnome-keyring & libpam-gnome-keyring packages are installed. Added following 2 lines to end of /etc/pam.d/login: auth optional ...
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I have a condition in .xinitrc that is not met, and I don't understand why: I have the .Xresources file in my ~ (with read permissions), and my ~/.xinitrc contains a line with [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] &...
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I am new to Arch and did a fresh install. I have configured it to use dwm and I start it with startx. The problem is that some commands in xinitrc seem to not run. It clearly works to some extend, ...
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I have a SSH server that is responsible for running dwm binary through X forwarding, on my client computer, i have a shell script that replaces the dwm binary on /usr/local/bin, inside that script, i ...
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I'm working on a headless system, and trying to emulate a display (specifically so I can render headless with blender, but the problem is more fundamental). I'm simulating a login to create the X ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W running Raspberry OS Lite (based on Debian 11 Bullseye, no desktop environment) that runs a startup shell script after an automatic login. The script uses the xinit ...
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I want to set up i3 automatically start on a specific one of my three screens (all connected to one Nvidia card). This has proved more difficult than expected. My first choice was to just set that ...
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Ever since I updated debian, evince has been slow to startup - it takes about half a minute. Once it is open, it works fine, its just slow to open. It never used to take that long - it just used to ...
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I want to change the location of .xinitrc, .zshrc and .zshenv to ~/.config/x/xinitrc, ~/.config/zsh/zshrc and ~/.config/zsh/zshenv, but without simlinking them. How can I achieve this? Do I have to ...
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I added an .Xresources file to my home directory and when I load it from my shell prompt with xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources the resource settings are recognized (for X programs started afterwards). ...
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What automatically executed script (~/.xinitrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc) is the best place to put a call to xrandr to set the correct refresh rate for my monitor on login? I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, and ...
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I've recently attempted experimentation with Arch Linux, and have managed to get an install with basic utilities, a network manager, etc going. I plan to use the Openbox window manager, with (at least,...
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I'm using archlinux, dwm and dwmblocks. At startup dwmblocks shows only the icons of the blocks', without loading the scripts output. If I run $ killall dwmblocks and restart $ dwmblocks & it ...
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I have i3 installed as my primary window manager; now I want to test dwm. My xinitrc has only one line: exec i3. If I want dwm to launch and not i3 do I have to delete this line completely or do I ...
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If I'm on the tty cli with no desktop environment set up, how can I start a remote desktop environment through ssh? For exmaple, if I first launch startx icewm and from there do a ssh -X me@raspi ...
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This is on Xubuntu 18.04. I'm trying to replace lightdm with my own application running full screen on boot up. I can run xinit from root shell, and it correctly takes my /root/.xinitrc commands and ...
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I have a Debian linux box set up with two displays. One is from Display Port (DP) on the box through an active adapter to DVI input on the display itself. The other is straight VGA to VGA.. This is ...
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I felt that an .xinitrc like this #!/bin/sh bash <(sed -n 'H /^exec ./{ x s/\([^\n]\+ &\n\)*exec .*// p }' /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) xmonad & # ... exec xterm where the ...
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I want to start an Xorg server (which should only feature a minimal xterm terminal emulator from a newly created "pristine" tty). I have thought this to be as simple as issuing a xinit or ...
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I just installed the new Debian 10 Buster and I am not satisfied. I installed it without any desktop. Only basic system utilities were installed during the initial install. After reboot I signed in ...
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I can physically swing around my monitor one right angle. On the console I can control orientation with the rotate_all "button" in /sys/devices/.../fbcon/. But xorg is not impressesed by that. Now I ...
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What I need to achieve is this: Run Teamviewer host on Ubuntu headless server CLI Increase the resolution to something workable Open a browser on the server through TV without installing a complete ...
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I use xinit to start X with wm - startx command that using .xinitrc to invoke X11 environment, but when X starts, there a black screen with cursor staying there for few seconds before X is fully ...
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I need to run a program that I haven't developed, the issue is that even if it doesn't run any GUI interface (can be used on silent mode) it still requires an X server running because of the way it's ...
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I'm using Arch Linux with i3wm with xinit which results in having tty1 as my "greeter". I wanna know if there is any possibility to have a greeter, for instance, Deepin greeter at login prompt ...
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I'm having some trouble starting pywal through .xinitrc Currently my .xinitrc is: exec dwm wal -i "/home/joe/pictures/wallpapers" & Anyone know what I could have messed up?
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In .xinitrc, there'll have multiple lines with & to put some commands in background, I'd like to control if a command is completed or not before process to next command. I use zsh in .xinitrc ...
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I am trying to figure out how to use my .xinitrc file to load an xmodmap configuration file. Although this seems to be a popular problem around the internet, I can't seem to get it working. I am ...
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In NixOS, services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.extraSessionCommands describes "Shell commands executed just before XFCE is started.". What about for shell commands right after XFCE is started? That ...
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Not using display manager and executing startup logic via xinitrc. Problem is some dbus-related env variables are not set. xinitrc excerpt: dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd --all # note ...
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I know that this is not the normal way people use X. Most setup instructions tell you to put something like startx in your shell's profile. However I want to have systemd manage things. Ideally I ...
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What is the right way to start wmii window manager from ~/.xinitrc? I put exec wmii however it doesn't seem to pick up configuration.
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I have an Acer chromebook that I used to be able to load into xfce via "shell" then "sudo startxfce4" at the chrome terminal. Suddenly it fails and will no longer load. Instead, I get the following. ...
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In Arch Linux, I would like to run VirtualBox without a window manager. As a root I can easily do: xinit /usr/bin/VirtualBox -- :0 vt1 As a non-root user I get a blank screen. If I open another ...
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LXQt works perfectly after a fresh Arch install on my laptop, then I reboot, and without changing anything, simply logging in as the same user from before, running startx like before, instead of lxqt ...
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I have Ubuntu-server 16.04. Installed gtk3 and can execute my program manually by this command: ./img when I go to it's directory /home/m. But when I tried to add this line to my /etc/rc.local file: /...
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I have a raspberry pi zero and I'm running Jessie lite (very similar to ubuntu distros). I'm using my pi to run a MagicMirror. Everything runs correctly but X windows does not take up the whole screen....
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I'm trying to get an xscreensaver to run as my desktop background / wallpaper using the method described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XScreenSaver#Animated_wallpaper and the first step ...
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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 ...
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I have an Arch Linux with i3wm now. When I need to start my i3, I just type startx, because in config file I have exec i3;. When I need to run some another graphical environment, such as Gnome, I edit ...
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