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I have a laptop running linux. In my xorg configuration, I have DPMS setup so that the screen automatically turns off during several events. In addition to that I have to the following script tied to ACPI lid open/close events:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(pidof X); do
CMD=$(ps --no-heading $i)
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I have an embedded board with a small UPS. When AC power goes down, I need to turn off all power hungry devices in order to have a clean shutdown.
First thing I do, is set DPMS to force powerdown, then go through the usual SIGTERM/SIGKILL/umount sequence.
I have an Intel i915 Display adapter connected…
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Historically if you wanted to control blanking and DPMS in X, you could do it with xset. Issuingxset -dpms on my laptop results in xset q returning "DPMS is Disabled", as it should.
But my screens still turn off.
I'm running an up-to-date Arch Linux using KMS with integrated Intel graphics, I'm…
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I have a monitor which was properly switched off by my Debian PC when
unused. I attached it to another machine and, this times, it is never
switched off.
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I have:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
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Is there a DPMS option to turn one monitor off on a dual-head setup? I know the following can turn both off. Thanks in advance!
xset dpms force off
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I had been using Sublime Text 2 with no issues.
I installed IDLE and now I'm unable to start Sublime Text. I tried uninstalling IDLE, but Sublime Text is still not starting. Here's the error:
Unable to load libgdk-x11-2.0.so Unable to load gdk_cairo_create from
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Besides the
documentation changes I mentioned last time, another place you can see
Solaris 11.1 changes before upgrading is in the online package repository, now
that the 11.1 packages have been published to
http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/, as the “0.175.1.0.0.24.2” branch…
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I have a home and work computer, the home computer has a static IP address.
If I ssh from my work computer to my home computer, the ssh connection works but X11 applications are not displayed.
In my /etc/ssh/sshd_config at home:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
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I have a VM with RHEL 5 without an X server.
My host has Windows 7.
I need to connect to the VM and redirect the X11 output of the commands to my host.
I know that if my host were a GNU/Linux machine it would be as easy as ssh -X .
I'm ussing PuTTy to connect by SSH to the VM, I tried enabling…
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X11 on the Mac does a horrible job drawing fonts. I'm trying to use the GIMP and Inkscape and the menus, and other text, don't draw correctly half the time. What is the fix for this?
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