Forum: Desktop / X-Windows

I had this problem with Ubuntu 64bits 6.06 and Fedora Core 5 x86_64. In both cases I installed correctly Nvidia drivers and launched the Distro...

So much a newbie, Linux isn't even installed yet but I'm determined... I will need to have a dual boot system but want to have WinXP boot off the...

Im trying to create a desktop launcher and when I choose my icon, I can only choose the preinstalled gnome icons. I Icons I want to use are grayed...

Ive just installed Xfce and I am getting in a huff over a couple of issues. First, I cant paste commands into my command line. I dont know which...

hi peeps, hoping for some help. Just installed suse10.1 (fantastic distro by the way!) and was in the process of installing/configuring my ati...

How i can check which Display Manger i am using like whether KDE or GNOME ? is there any command to see it ?

Hi all: Total newbie for please forgive! Okay I have Debian Linux set-up on a server, and I wish to open that up on my laptop! However my...

My friend and I want to make our own GUI for linux, as kind of a work in progress project for fun, and I would like to know if there was a way to...

When I start KDE the machine locks up and requires a HARD reboot at the "Initializing peripherals" stage. Where can I look to see at what point the...

Hi there! I´m trying to figure out how to log off users from a perl script or the command line. I use Debian with gdm and KDE. Up to now, all i´ve...

Hi people, I really getting an headacke of everything around X. For ov er months I tried to set up Direct Rendering with the Savage driver (using...

I'm using Mozilla 1.5 with CUPS, KDE 3, XFree86 4 and I've been having a problem with printing. Most of the letters are being printed using what...

Running SuSE 10.0 with Xorg 6.9.0 (incidentally, are there any RPMs available for 7.0?), KDE 3.5 and the 8672 Nvidia drivers. If Translucency is...

How can i set KDE as default desktop?

Hi, I am new in x11 programming. I want the solution for the problem of viewing multiple (4) images of movie in X11 window. Presently I am...

I am trying to enchance event handling loop. Right now with a standard (text book) loop the problem is that on any ConfigureNotify or Expose event I...

Hi: I am running an X application on Red hat Linux with X11R6. I was getting the following error at run-time: XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success)...

Hi , while i am using this function for Tab event i am getting this while executing the program can any one try to explain what to do...

Hi, I studied XSendEvent but that function is useful only when we know the windowid i dont want that my application has to move the pointer...