xserver

How to get the list of open windows from xserver

Anyone got an idea how to get from an Xserver the list of all open windows? ...

X server running ?

Is there any way to find out if the current session user is running an Xserver (under Linux) ? I'v started off with things like: ps -e | grep X but this doesn't work always and one more thing I tried is checking the $DISPLAY variable Are there any other ways to check this? EDIT: Some people suggested using the $DISPLAY variables b...

What is X Server and Remote Terminal Server?

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 do these servers work? ...

recoverable class Fbd error(s)

My server (an XServe xeon 8-core [harpertown arch]) has been spamming kernel warnings lately and I cannot seem to get any concrete information on what may be going wrong. Has anybody encountered such errors before? thanks in advance, |K< Apr 6 13:44:19 xserve kernel[0]: /!\ WARNING: 27006 recoverable class Fbd error(s) ( ferr = 0x3000...

A /dev/null equivilent for DISPLAY when the display is just noise.

I'm running a java app which creates a visual display of some of the things it is doing, while it is doing it. However, I'm want to run this in a script that won't have a display to attach to. In the current environment, there isn't even a DISPLAY environment variable set. I tried to simply set my DISPLAY to :0.0. But that doesn't exist....

Alternative to cvs2svn for performing cvs to svn migration

I am trying to perform a migration from cvs to svn on my our new XServe server which is running Mac OSx server edition. There is a known conflict between the dbm libraries that come pre installed with mac osx and the cvs2svn. The error it gives is this "ERROR: cvs2svn uses the anydbm package, which depends on lower level dbm libraries....

OpenGL / X-Window program hangs during Window creation

Hi! I've got a C/C++ app using the GLFW Library on a netbook-like device running Ubuntu 8.10. As far as I understand the source the GLFW lib, it creates its window using calls to the X-Window library. We do not use any desktop on the machine but login to a tty and start a X-server in the background. When running the compiled applicat...

How i can, on some global keystroke, paste some text to current active application in linux with Python or C++

I want to write app, which will work like a daemon and on some global keystroke paste some text to current active application (text editor, browser, jabber client) I think i will need to use some low level xserver api. How i can do this with Python or C++ ? ...

How to kill headless X server started via Python?

I want to get screenshots of a webpage in Python. For this I am using http://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png/ . newArgs = ["xvfb-run", "--server-args=-screen 0, 640x480x24", sys.argv[0]] for i in range(1, len(sys.argv)): if sys.argv[i] not in ["-x", "--xvfb"]: newArgs.append(sys.argv[i]) logging.debug(...

Redirecting only graphics of a X client to another X server?

Hi, all Support I have two computers. Each computer has a X server running. And one of the computers also have some GUI applications running on it. Now I want to keep the GUI applications still running on the same computer, and they're still getting keyboard and mouse input from the same computer, while redirect their display content ...

Cygwin/Xming : Running Java application with drag and drop support in x-server

I have a Java application using jTree with 'drag and drop' support. When I run it on a SuSE box (Server details below ) and redirect the GUI interface using xming x-server (version details below) to a windows box , the drag and drop functionality in jTree stops working. After analyzing a bit I found that X-server is able to recognize th...

Attach/Detach to a remote instance of Eclipse

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 Windows machine and have to reboot. I'd like to keep Eclipse running and come back where I left off. Eclipse is running on my Windows machine t...

Do Qt Applications require KDE?

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 anyone please point me to some article detailing the relationship between Qt, GTK, KDE, GNOME, X? ...

Detect if X is running and if it's usable for application

Hi all, On a POSIX-compliant system, how do one detect if X is running and if it's usable for the application. ...

How to avoid Eclipse leaks on XServer when editing Android XML files?

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 remedy for that? Thank you! ...

How do I use python-webkit2png to take many screenshots at the same time?

I've got thousands of urls from many hosts I need to screenshot. I can use the lib fine from the command line, but how can I integrate it into my code so I can take multiple screenshots simultaneously? I think it's something to do with xvfb as with the answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1747022/how-to-kill-hea...

xvfb on a machine with a display, can an application run 'in the background?'

I'm setting up to cron a web scraping job, using xvfb, firefox, and watir on my Mac OS X. In testing the script so far, firefox pops up visibly on the local desktop, the watir script executes, and then firefox exits (I quit firefox in my script). I'd like to set the xvfb DISPLAY such that firefox will run, but won't be seen on the loca...

Blender: render project on a server without X-Server

I want to create a blender-project on my Ubuntu 10.04 Laptop. But I don't want to render it on the same machine because I also have to work with it. I want to render it on my Linux-server over ssh and without any GUI. So my question is: Is this possible and if yes, how? Can I do every single setting on my laptop and put the project on my...

Podcast Producer Apple Xserve

Hi Everybody I guess that is not a programming question per se. But since I always got excellent answers here I wanted to try asking it. I also asked this question in other apple specific forums and got no answer. I have to deal with Podcast Producer on a Xserve via Xgrid. Its not be working at all. Is there any great step by step d...

How to restart gdm in ubuntu without being logged out

Hi, How can I restart gdm or the xserver without logging out? Sometimes, there is a freeze and I just need to redraw. It rarely happens but when it does. My only options are /etc/init.d/gdm restart ctrl+alt+backspace switch to tty and restart all those options force my session to end. Any suggestions? Thanks ...