Re: X client without X server

2013-07-04 Thread Christopher J. Umina
You can remove leaf ports using pkg_cutleaves once everything is installed. You can even remove pkg_cutleaves with pkg_cutleaves if you don't want it anymore. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? I don't use emacs, but you can quickly check, prior to installing, what other ports will be required, e.g. do make -C /usr/ports/ search name=emacs-24 After doing my

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X client without X server Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Anton, On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bris.ac.uk wrote: Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X client without X server Hi

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: $ pkg info -xd xterm xterm-293: xproto-7.0.24 xextproto-7.2.1 renderproto-0.11.1 printproto-1.0.5 libxcb-1.9.1 libXrender-0.9.8 libXpm-3.5.10 libXp-1.0.2,1

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
(and certainly does) depend on the same libraries as the X server, but there is no way xterm depends on X server itself. I can manually remove X server and the fonts and xclac... and the system is still running very well (and updating without trying to reinstall X server...) Best regards, Olivier

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Polytropon
. That make no sense, xterm may (and certainly does) depend on the same libraries as the X server, but there is no way xterm depends on X server itself. That's what I would imagine too. But who knows what's going on in the strange realm of build dependencies and run dependencies... :-) I can

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X client without X server Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? On all my systems, I throw

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bris.ac.uk To: me...@bristol.ac.uk; olivier2...@gmail.com Cc: o...@cs.ait.ac.th; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: Re: X client without X server     From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 2, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Eugene
Eugene -Original Message- From: Bill Tillman Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X client without X server Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead low. But the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: X client without X server xterm may not require it [xorg-server], but one of xterm's dependencies may. This is simply not true. xterm does not require xorg

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Arthur Chance
with a whopping 1 GB hard drive. And back then how we thought with a 1 GB hard drive we'd never run out of space. Well these days one could easily run out of space with such a small hard drive. But with today's systems having 2 or 3 TB drives and GB's of RAM, something as trivial as X-Server should

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead low. But the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long since behind us. My concern is when portupgrade -a. The more ports on the system, the more likely the upgrade will fail. So I'd prefer to have as little

X client without X server

2013-07-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X on the machine, but still it install X server, fonts and a lot

stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I configured FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE with X starting automatically at boot. I use kdm3 login manager, and it works. I would like to make changes to xorg.conf and test the effects. How can I stop X in a terminal temporarily? If I kill kdm it is restarted immediately. In openSUSE I could do this

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:33:50 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: I configured FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE with X starting automatically at boot. I use kdm3 login manager, and it works. I would like to make changes to xorg.conf and test the effects. How can I stop X in a terminal temporarily? If I

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 02 October 2012 14:49:54 Polytropon wrote: For the desired test scenario, I'd suggest to disable KDE (kdm) startup in /etc/rc.conf, and finally stop the related service (from /usr/local/etc/rc.d probably). Then you can easily use the startx command to start an X session from a

Re: stop and start X server in FreeBSD 9.0

2012-10-02 Thread Istvan Gabor
Polytropon, Mike, Thank for your answers. 2012. október 2. 17:29 napon Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk írta: On Tuesday 02 October 2012 14:49:54 Polytropon wrote: For the desired test scenario, I'd suggest to disable KDE (kdm) startup in /etc/rc.conf, and finally stop the

X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
I have a problem that I do not understand. At the prompt I give the command startx I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist. Copy the file from another system and I get X server already running on display :0 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open /usr/local/etc

Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At the prompt I give the command startx I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist. Copy the file from another system and I get copying files instead of installing packages isn't bright idea, unless you copy complete /usr/local tree.

Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-07-21 18:42, Wojciech Puchar skrev: At the prompt I give the command startx I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist. Copy the file from another system and I get copying files instead of installing packages isn't bright idea, unless you copy complete /usr/local

Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Copy the file from another system and I get X server already running on display :0 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist this is an answer i think ___ freebsd-questions

Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
command, prefixed by exec, in that file. It seems you don't have Xfce 4 installed. Copy the file from another system and I get X server already running on display :0 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist I have

SV: Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
True! I copied this file as well and now xfce starts as usual.  /Leslie Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl skrev: Copy the file from another system and I get X server already running on display :0 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) Folks are supposed to use a different product ID for different devices, so you

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com, 2011-11-09 22:10 (+0100): How would HAL know that the keyboard had a Swedish layout? No such information is sent through USB or PS/2 when you attach a keyboard. True for PS/2, but not true for USB-- the USB Vendor Product ID can identify different keyboard

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
. If you don't enable HAL and DBUS, you're using an X server compiled with HAL and DBUS support and you haven't set AutoAddDevices to false you won't get any input devices at all: no working mouse, no working keyboard. At least, this was my experience after an upgrade long ago. Quite frustrating. I

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
from Xorg that are in FreeBSD are not allowed to be altered unless the Xorg project do it themselves, I'm sure they can be altered in FreeBSD. I just thought it might be better to add the text to the handbook. Or both. Anyway, I wasn't aware that the FreeBSD X server was ancient and different

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Polytropon free...@edvax.de, 2011-11-10 01:30 (+0100): Now as it (almost?) works on FreeBSD, it's already deprecated by new Linux concepts such as udev, upower and other usomethings. Maybe they become available as interfaces on FreeBSD too, but my fear is... as soon as they are usable,

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-11-09 21:52, Samuel Magnusson skrev: When I first installed Xorg I began by following the handbook, which means that I unwittingly did this to my poor rc.conf: hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES That meant that I would HAVE to go into the XML-stuff (to get swedish keys) If all you want is

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 10, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: True for PS/2, but not true for USB-- the USB Vendor Product ID can identify different keyboard types and let you infer the country. I'm sorry I was unclear. I meant the USB device doesn't say what physical keyboard layout it

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com, 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use the same USB product ID Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing to deal with

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Are the keyboard and mouse USB devices?  A KVM should not disconnect them on switching, but maybe it does. In my experience, most inexpensive USB KVMs work by disconnecting the keyboard/mouse from one system and

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate the system trying

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
keyboard in xterm in spite of the xorg.conf settings. It seemed like the X server just ignored all my keyboard options in xorg.config. Which it also did! (As I also colud confirm from the logfile) The thing that really made it was the Option AutoAddDevice off, which I had failed to notice. I

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
start a xterm -display :0 from there. But even if I can focus the xterm-window with the mouse the keyboard doesn't respond so I can't write any commands. If I kill -9 the X server and the login process on vt4 the processes disappears from the list but I am still not taken back to vt0

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:06:37 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: Is it then so that in the new style Xorg the XML-method will override HAL, and this is the new default way of providing opitons that formerly were in the InputDevice sections in xorg.conf? I hope not! :-) As far as I understood the

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:19:44 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: This works for me: X :0 -terminate Ctrl-Alt-F1 xterm -display :0 Ctrl-Alt-F9 exit xterm.. which brings me back to the first console. But this doesn't work: X :0 -terminate vt4 Ctrl-Alt-F1 (doesn't respond) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Huff
Since this has been mentioned, I though I'd take the opportunity ... Polytropon writes: You have X without HAL and DBUS? Use xorg.conf because this has worked for many years to centralize X configuration. You have X with HAL and DBUS, but don't want to use it? Reflect this

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-09 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Robert Huff wrote: I have two systems - one Windows, one FreeBSD - that share monitor, keyboard, and mouse via a kvm. FreeBSD had both HAL and DBUS installed and activated in rc.conf. Scenario: I'm working on the FreeBSD system, and switch to the WIndows

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
isn't a dependency for the X server, many users were surprised when they didn't have any working mouse nor keyboard! I don't use HAL and it seems even the X.org project has moved away from HAL even if such modern X.org X servers are not yet in ports. It doesn't warn that if it is NOT disabled

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-09 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:02:07 -0500 Robert Huff articulated: Since this has been mentioned, I though I'd take the opportunity ... Polytropon writes: You have X without HAL and DBUS? Use xorg.conf because this has worked for many years to centralize X configuration. You

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
these are decisions to be made by X.org though, and not by me.. I just wonder. :) Anyway, can you stand one more just curious-question from me? When I used the vesa and nouveau drivers they were automatically kldloaded when the X server read the xorg.conf file. But the nVidia driver I have

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: And should HAL have discovered my swedish keyboard automatically in the first place, so there was something going wrong there? How would HAL know that the keyboard had a Swedish layout? No such information is sent through

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
to it? Anyway, I wasn't aware that the FreeBSD X server was ancient and different from any other. :) But I'm a rookie so far.. I was actually thinking when struggling with this that I should learn this X keyboard configuration thoroughly and try to write a beginners tutorial, fail-safe and step by step

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
do what you want: centralized settings for X in xorg.conf. Setup once, then use. Anyway, I wasn't aware that the FreeBSD X server was ancient and different from any other. :) There is some delay in porting X's new features from Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is the platform that mostly drives

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:10:20 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: And should HAL have discovered my swedish keyboard automatically in the first place, so there was something going wrong there? How would HAL know that the

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Polytropon wrote 2011-11-09 19:19: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:19:44 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: This works for me: X :0 -terminate Ctrl-Alt-F1 xterm -display :0 Ctrl-Alt-F9 exit xterm.. which brings me back to the first console. But this doesn't work: X :0 -terminate vt4 Ctrl-Alt-F1 (doesn't

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Samuel Magnusson
Polytropon skrev 2011-11-10 01:30: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:49:19 +0100, Samuel Magnusson wrote: And migrating from Windows and Mac might be discouraging if there isn't a working desktop with visible text at least within an hour or two after installation. :) No problem in that, see FreeSBIE -

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: In this regards, it's also strange how FreeBSD could forget USB information it once had. On my old 5.x system, I got dmesg lines like that: ukbd0: Sun Microsystems Type 6 USB keyboard, rev 1.00/1.02, addr 3, iclass 3/1

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Samuel Magnusson wrote: 1. I can?t zap the server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Nothing at all happens. I have checked that it isn't disabled in xorg.conf, and even tried to put in the reverse boolean value there. Not that I couldn't live without zapping, but...when I know

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:14:48 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Samuel Magnusson wrote: 1. I can?t zap the server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Nothing at all happens. I have checked that it isn't disabled in xorg.conf, and even tried to put in the reverse boolean value

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the need for a X configuration file (usually /etc/X11/xorg.conf) including ``Option DontZap off'' in the ServerFlags section. For at least the most recent Xorg, it's not needed. Can't recall whether

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Block
, it's not needed. Can't recall whether it is for the one before that. Nope, just tested and I'm wrong. DontZap Off is needed with X.Org X Server 1.7.7. Sorry about that. I recommend adding the option to ServerLayout and doing away with the extra complication of a ServerFlags section

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
off'' in the ServerFlags section. For at least the most recent Xorg, it's not needed. Can't recall whether it is for the one before that. Nope, just tested and I'm wrong. DontZap Off is needed with X.Org X Server 1.7.7. Sorry about that. I recommend adding the option

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Block
/xorg.conf) including ``Option DontZap off'' in the ServerFlags section. For at least the most recent Xorg, it's not needed. Can't recall whether it is for the one before that. Nope, just tested and I'm wrong. DontZap Off is needed with X.Org X Server 1.7.7. Sorry about that. I recommend adding

X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-07 Thread Samuel Magnusson
not?:) And that, of course, brings me here to write my first query. This (foolish?) wish to understand may also explain why I bother to be curious about something that may be of little, if any, practical concern since my X server display runs well with twm and awesome so far... except for some

XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0

2011-03-26 Thread O. Hartmann
temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0 after 29 requests (29 known processed) with 0 events remaining. wmaker warning: got signal 15 - exiting... --- Recompiling xdm and xorg-server ( I did this desperately in the first place) didn't help very much. I do not dare to update all the other

Re: XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0

2011-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/03/2011 11:10 O. Hartmann said the following: Updating ports and source of my FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 host, equipted with a AMD/ATi HD4830 graphics board driven by X11 xf86-video-ati driver (which has been recently update as far as I saw), resulted this morning in an 'un-login-able'

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-27 Thread Glen Barber
I use the default install and I don't know what driver to get or how to build it.. but surely if you have the wrong drivers X will not start rather than not stop? X will start, but odd things will happen (such as your mouse not working, distorted resolutions, etc). Installing the Xorg

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-26 Thread Herman Te
Kevin, As the problem only occurs after I exit X the log file isn't very helpful as to what happens after. The last line is (II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse However it seems to be cycling through various resolution modes before starting, but no errors/warnings except for these lines

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-26 Thread Herman Te
In case this helps anybody, I fixed the 2 min startup by adding my machine's hostname to /etc/hosts, and the crash problem is fixed by installing the latest xf86-video-savage port. I wonder why the sysinstall doesnt know how to figure this out when installing and build the prot for me? Well

X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Herman Te
Hi, I installed 7.0 from the CD with X. Now this is the first time I ever used FreeBSD or X, I know a bit from linux but I usually use command line only. So when the system finished installing I logged in and typed startx. First time it took over 2 mins (is this normal) but eventually worked, and

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Barber
No, a 2 minute startup of Xorg is not normal. What kind of video card? Do you have the proper drivers for your video card installed? I've noticed on several flavors of Linux with my particular card (nVidia Geforce 8600 or something) that if I do not have the correct nVidia drivers, exiting X

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Barber
I should note on my last message, that I specified Linux because some don't install the proper drivers by default. With FreeBSD + Xserver on this box, it was always a habit for me to compile the drivers -- so I never noticed if I would experience this undesired behavior in *BSD. -- Glen Barber

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Herman Te wrote: Hi, I installed 7.0 from the CD with X. Now this is the first time I ever used FreeBSD or X, I know a bit from linux but I usually use command line only. So when the system finished installing I logged in and typed startx. First time it took over 2 mins (is this normal) but

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-29 Thread Tino Engel
williamkow schrieb: I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command startx. and then i run command startkde and I received error message (kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-29 Thread James Harrison
(kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command kdm, then it prompt for login screen. I am wondering the command startkde is not correct way to call KDE. please advise me. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-28 Thread williamkow
I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command startx. and then i run command startkde and I received error message (kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command kdm, then it prompt

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
(kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command kdm, then it prompt for login screen. I am wondering the command startkde is not correct way to call KDE. please advise me. Thank you. Do in your HOME directory and without having X11 up: $ echo exec startkde ~/.xinitrc $ startx

gnome X server error

2007-03-04 Thread Dr. Death
... Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ gnome-session (gnome-session:15045): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [EMAIL

Re: Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
-query ip -fp tcp/ip:7100 The X-Server starts, but it justs sits there, displaying the default background. After a certain period of time the server is restarted, without any error message on the console or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log I checked the xdm/gdm configuration a couple of times, but I can use

Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query

2006-12-29 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, I'm on $ uname -a FreeBSD pixie.alashan.dyndns.org 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Nov 16 17:15:03 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIXIE i386 running $ pkg_info|grep ^xorg-server xorg-server-6.9.0_5 X.Org X server and related programs I set up two

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Christian Walther
I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. I know that it works, but what actually happens is that you use a Windows machine to connect to a FreeBSD machine, just to send audio signals back to the Windows host (including all the graphics stuff required

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Christian Walther wrote: I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. Are you sure that esd does not compress the data? By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a real soundcard. Example follows. On the server (where

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Christian Walther wrote: I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. Are you sure that esd does not compress the data? By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a real soundcard. Example follows.

X server remote login and sound

2006-12-21 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, First of all, thanks you for the thread X server remote login I read it and configured a FreeBSD as follows: # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11/wdm make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox-devel make install clean Then I configured

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-21 Thread Antonio Arredondo
Dear mailing list, First of all, thanks you for the thread X server remote login I read it and configured a FreeBSD as follows: # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11/wdm make install clean # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox-devel make install clean Then I

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Dec Steve Franks wrote: 2) edit the .Xaccess file in the location specified for xdm in the handbook, add a LISTEN * line. I'll have to look it up in the handbook yet. I hope I will find in there how to prevent xdm from listening to the outside world. I only want to allow my local network

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-11 Thread Nathan Vidican
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 09 Dec Tony Shadwick wrote: On the xserver, if you want it to happen automatically, you would put startx in your .login file. So if you wanted that flag passed, you would place startx -listen_tcp in your .login file. On the client side, you're running an x-client,

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-11 Thread Antonio Arredondo
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 09 Dec Tony Shadwick wrote: On the xserver, if you want it to happen automatically, you would put startx in your .login file. So if you wanted that flag passed, you would place startx -listen_tcp in your .login file. On the client side, you're running an

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-11 Thread Steve Franks
I'm a noob myself, but I just did this, so: 1) edit etc/ttys, so the 8th one has xdm and change the no to yes in the second to last field (test by rebooting, should go to an x login, after a slight pasue) ctrl-alt-fn will still get you back to the text terminals. 2) edit the .Xaccess file in

X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have no idea where the config to make this possible resides on FreeBSD. I guess X runs without broadcasting itself on fbsd. How can I change this? --

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread Derek Ragona
By default in FreeBSD X doesn't listen for TCP requests. To change this do: startx -listen_tcp -Derek At 01:14 PM 12/9/2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 21:54, Derek Ragona wrote: By default in FreeBSD X doesn't listen for TCP requests. To change this do: startx -listen_tcp Thank you. But can this be made permanent somewhere? I guess the tcp port (6000?) should be made inaccessible to the outside world. --

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread Tony Shadwick
I have to apologize, as I've never had x11 start automatically for me anyplace. That said, you need to understand that the server/client relationship for X11 is backwards to what you might expect. The display, keyboard, and mouse are at the x-server side, and the machine you connect

Nubie can't connect to X-Server

2006-05-17 Thread Joshua Larkin
XFree86? After searching, I booted up my machine and got to a prompt, however, when I startkde, I get a constantly scrolling message that reads Cannot connect to the X server. Any suggestions? Thanks everyone for your help. -Josh ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Nubie can't connect to X-Server

2006-05-17 Thread Derek Ragona
message that reads Cannot connect to the X server. Any suggestions? Thanks everyone for your help. -Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

RE: Nubie can't connect to X-Server

2006-05-17 Thread Joshua Larkin
Thanks for the help, I'll try it when I get home from work tonight. - Josh -Original Message- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:18 AM To: Joshua Larkin; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nubie can't connect to X-Server Assuming

x server abort

2006-01-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, these days I encountered some problem with my xorg 6.8 server. What I remember now is that after I upgrade my apps by portmanager -u, somehow the X server failed during the launch of some apps, like bzflag and vmd. I checked the xorg.log file, and the only thing I got is: [snip] (WW) fcntl

Restarting X server within KDE?

2005-07-26 Thread David Gerard
Many years ago, I ran fvwm2 under Solaris. It actually had a menu option set up whereby you could restart the X server without all your X clients dying. I really wanted this the other week when KDE went weird on me and the mouse pointer disappeared. (After only two months! With this sort

Re: Restarting X server within KDE?

2005-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), David Gerard said: Many years ago, I ran fvwm2 under Solaris. It actually had a menu option set up whereby you could restart the X server without all your X clients dying. I really wanted this the other week when KDE went weird on me and the mouse pointer

Setting Up a X Server

2005-04-20 Thread Mick Walker
Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6 machines, Various Operating Systems What I wish to be able to do is setup the 6 client machines to be able

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote: On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit

Re: Setting Up a X Server

2005-04-20 Thread Kees Plonsz
Mick Walker wrote on Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:06 in the group list.freebsd.questions: Hello everyone; I am looking for information on how to setup a remote X server. This is my setup: Internet. | FreeBSD Gateway (Running Xorg) | 8 Port hub Wireless Base Station | 6

Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-17 Thread Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: After I had export DISPLAY=freebsdboxip:0.0 it says again: (gedit

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Danter
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: After I had export DISPLAY=freebsdboxip

Re: Connecting to X Server on a FreeBSD Box

2005-04-17 Thread Chris Hodgins
On 4/17/05, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I start an X server on my FreeBSD box. I want to run some remote X applications from my fedora core 2. So, I have ssh to the fedora box and typed gedit. But it says : (gedit:12438): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

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