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Xorg turns laptop screen off on startup on Gentoo
I am having a problem with my Gentoo installation (binary kernel) where Xorg only turns off my laptop's screen when using Startx, and I can only change TTY to use Gentoo but only on CLI.
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linux dual monitor setup each connected to intel and nvidia gpus
My computer is intel 9600k + vertical monitor + z390 chipset + nvidia rtx 2060 + horizontal monitor + Gentoo linux + Xorg server 1.20.6 + gnome 3.32.2
In the UEFI i've set intel iGPU as primary GPU.
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Use Xorg autoconfig to dynamically apply settings depending on monitor?
The setup is as follows:
a common Gentoo linux based system image (has to be shared between all)
1 out of 3 different touch based input devices
1 out of 3 different monitors
There is always only one ...
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Gentoo xorg-server update conflicts
I ran eix-sync and emerge world -uvDp, then I got below message. I am quite confused by this message. It seems it is saying that the lower version of xorg-server is conflicting withe higher version ...
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Font in remote X connection
I have a headless Gentoo box and would like to run X app on it but forward the display to a Cygwin Xorg server running on my Windows PC.
It works but I am not sure in this case if I specify some ...
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Xorg input devices fail without udev
What I am trying to do:
Launch Xorg server without udev device manager.
What I have tried to do:
Make sure that /dev/ has all required nodes, such as /dev/input/*.
Make sure that all required ...
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Is it possible to have DisplayLink USB display hotplugging with Xorg 1.13 on kernel 3.4?
keithp seems to be the only one on the interwebs to have written anything about the subject and he worked with 3.5_rc. I don't want to go above 3.4 at the moment for various stability reasons and am ...
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How to change the layout of a Synergy keyboard on Linux?
I am using Synergy-plus-1.3.4 on Gentoo Linux kernel 2.6.36-tuxonice-r3.
I am using SHIFT+CAPS to change the keyboard layout on BOTH server and client boxes. It works perfectly if I change the ...
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Application-specific keymapping
In general, I want to make specific keymaps for application, that working only in it and doesn't affect other apps.
For example, I already use my Caps key to toggle input language (via xorg.conf), ...
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Messed up keybinding on Gentoo
After I installed some updates on my Gentoo system some Keybindings are messed up. I didn't make a note which packages - so I cannot provide a list. The only thing I remember is that I installed x11-...
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xmodmap no longer works for XF86 keys?
I recently upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.7 on gentoo linux (along with a bunch of other upgrades...). It seems that xmodmap no longer accepts my .Xmodmap file. I get errors like
/usr/bin/xmodmap: /...
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How to stop X server on Gentoo?
I tried to stop X so I could install graphics drivers. First I tried with killall -9 X but X server just restarted. Then I tried init 3 but that didn't closed X. How do I close it?
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