xorg

Hello everyone. I'm having some trouble trying to add a scroll bar into a Xterm terminal. I tried to find on the internet some way to get it work but I can't because I can't find the right config file, most of the tutorials that I saw were just for Arch Linux and as I can see Xorg is a little...

I'm not sure if this is an issue for security but I was wondering if is it possible to run urxvt and/or xorg as an unpreviliged user that isn't root. Starting urxvt opens an another instance by root killing of which effects nothing at all.

Hello everybody, I've installed FreeBSD 12.1 on my laptop Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6 and a lot of thing work well (wifi, sound etc). I've first installed xfce4 and found a script on a forum to set my keyboard in french on xorg. But now I've installed KDE5 (KDE5 is in french) I've found nothing which...

Hey guys. I hope everyone is staying safe with COVID-19. Here's hoping it will go to /dev/null soon... So, anyway, as the title of this post says, I'm having trouble getting X to start (XFCE4 works fine when it manages to load properly with Xorg). I know things are working fine because the text...

Hi, I cannot change resolution. I tried via xrandr, arandr and KDE5 settings but it simply doesn't work. I'm using FreeBSD on my virtual machine. I use Virtualbox and I think that this may be a problem. When I try to change resolution it gives: "Failed to get size of gamma for output default". I...

I installed FreeBSD 11.3 since 12.1 shows entropy error. I have Intel I5 integrated graphics and AMD Radeon M330 graphics card on my laptop. When I executed Xorg -configure It got me 2 monitors and 2 screens which was shown as error in startx. I deleted the 2nd monitor, Intel graphics and...

Hello, I've been using FreeBSD for many years now on my servers, but I decided to try it out on my ThinkPad x220 with a desktop environment. I have setup Xorg on my machine, and I'm currently using awesome wm. I'm trying to configure awesome wm (i.e. setting up new keybinds, changing themes)...

I'm just setting up HardenedBSD, which is based on FreeBSD. I was trying to install and get Ice-WM running but whenever I try to run it, I get some messages telling me that it can't open the display and that X must be running. I have a screenshot of the problem at hand. So how do I get X...

Hello everyone, I'm running FreeBSD 12.1-p2 on an old Dell XPS M1330 laptop. The video card is an old nVidia GeForce 8400M GS, and everything use to work fine with driver "nvidia-driver-304-304.137_6". A few days ago I installed the latest system updates, and now X.org stopped working. By...

I'm having trouble getting my dual monitor setup to work. I have my first monitor "Screen0" plugged into my motherboard (intel, at least I think so). I have my second monitor plugged into my nvidia graphics card, "Screen1". I can get the Screen0 to work if I have my driver set to "modesetting"...

I have a strange situation (for me). I install freeBSD 12.1, xorg, xfce, nvidia-driver (build the 440.31 from ports) ... When I launch startx, the screen of my laptop become black with a little blanc square on top left. I lost 3-4 hour to discover that if I connect a HDMI monitor, I can see...

Hey all, I'm currently running FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p12 with XFCE and it is slow: top reports Xorg using 90+% of CPU resources on idle state. 67062 tom 1 101 0 320M 243M CPU1 1 40.0H 93.12% Xorg Can someone help me troubleshoot? It is a DELL Latitude E7470 on which I...

Hey guys, I installed freebsd recently, it's an amazing system, but xorg is giving me a headache! I tried to install mate, xfce, gnome, but it doesn't start with startx, nor does slim start! xorg log errors are as follows: Open /dev/dri/card0: no such file or directory Screen 0 deleted because...

I cant seem to get this to work as after i install the drm-kmod and add kld_list="amdgpu" to rc.conf after the freebsd boot screen the monitor go blank. turning off the frame buffer doesnt help.

I'm having issues getting libinput to work. I set it up so that libinput is actually loaded (compiled kernel with evdev support, installed xf86-input-libinput and friends, etc etc) Xorg.0.log [ 31.124] X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date: 2016-07-19 [ 31.124] X Protocol Version 11...

This is my first bout with FreeBSD, having decided to give a non-Linux *nix a whirl (I've installed a dual-boot setup on a laptop, but I'm trying to learn the ropes first on a VM; I've downloaded the .vhd file.) I decided to try to install everything via ports (since I've read that pkg and...

My desktop PC has an Intel i5-4690k on an Asus UEFI Motherboard with an Nvidia GTX970 GPU. It has 3 monitors connected through said GPU. Normally I run Windows but I'd like to boot into a FreeBSD 12 desktop environment more often from my other hard drive. The problem I regularly run into is that...

I also need help I try install xfce4 using: pkg install xorg slim xfce also add to /etc/rc.conf moused_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" slim_enable="YES" and ~/.xinitrc exec xfce4-session Then I rebooted the system but nothing happened tried forcibly: (or startx no...

I'm trying to configure my keyboard within Xorg, but accent arent working. setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak-alt-intl -option compose:ralt I then press the right alt button + ' + e and I get ? character instead of e with accent Same result with setxkbmap -layout us -variant...

Hey guys, I'm trying to set up sddm with i3, but I can't seem to get xorg and stuff to work. If I try and start sddm as normal user, I just get a blank screen with no keyboard/mouse input. I get the follwing three errors: Failed to change owner of the socket Error in locking authority file...