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Does XOrg have a notion of system-wide default font?
How and where can I change the default system font? For now it appears to be DejaVu 11, which looks horrible on my laptop.
I mean the font that is used in menus or labels. For example when I open ...
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The virt-manager displays "Gtk couldn't be initialized"
I am running the virt-manager on RHEL 7.0, but it always display "Gtk couldn't be initialized":
[root@dhb5 ~]# virt-manager --debug --nofork
2015-08-17 03:21:09,895 (cliutils:75): virt-manager ...
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Per-application window scaling in Xorg for high dpi display
I am running Gnome Shell with a 4k monitor and there are a few applications that I use that don't scale at all with the high resolution.
Here is an example of LMMS, an application that hasn't yet ...
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GTK apps from remote server look bad
I ssh into my headless remote server with X11 forwarding. All my remote GTK apps from remote server look rather ugly. My default GTK theme is not applied. I think this has something to do with GTK ...
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How do I unmaximize a window with xdotool or similar by command line?
With xdotool or wmctrl I can move or modify window attributes but if it is maximized none of the commands work. How do I "unmaximize" the window?
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How do I fix a "cannot open display" error when opening an X program after ssh'ing with X11 forwarding enabled?
After launching the X11 app (XQuartz 2.3.6, xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56) on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8), opening an terminal in X11 and running xhost +, I then ssh -Y to my Ubuntu 10.04 VM (running on VMware ...
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Installing gtk+3, can't see X11/extensions/XInput2.h
According to Synaptic package manager I have version 1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2 of both xorg and xserver-xorg, the latest version. I am trying to install gtk+3.0.0 and when I run 'make' it works until this ...
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Graphical equivalent to /dev/null?
I'm trying to run a GTK-based plotting library that I wrote over an SSH terminal that's too slow to run an X session over. GTK assumes that a graphical display is present and won't work otherwise. ...
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compose-key mappings differ between gtk and qt apps
I'm noticing that there is an inconsistency in the output of one of the compose-key combos.
When I type ( [Compose] . . ) under Chrome, gedit, gnome-terminal, or roxterm I get the character '˙'. ...
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x11 looks ugly while opening a remote window from ssh. Can I use GTK themes?
I use to connect to a distant computer running linux from my mac using ssh.
For example I use:
$ ssh -Y login@host
then
$ gnome-open .
in order to open a nautilus window. This window do open but ...
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