What is “.xsession” for?
What is the purpose of the .xsession file in the home folder? What should be put in there? The desktop environments don’t use that file and for the X startup from the tty there is .xinitrc.
xorg
How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
I don’t remember why they did this, but at one point X.org decided that disabling CtrlAltBackspace to kill it was a good idea. I know there’s a way to re-enable it but I don’t remember how. Can someone refresh my memory?
Pasting X selection (not clipboard contents) with keyboard
I’d like to be able to paste the X selection using the keyboard. Currently I have to use the middle mouse button to do this.
Custom xkb layout in which one key creates two unicode code points
I am writing a new custom keyboard layout for Xorg, but there is one particular glyph which does not exist in Unicode. It is, however, easy to create it by using a standard letter plus a combining diacritic mark.
Set Xorg to use only part of the screen
My screen has 1280 x 1024 resolution. But unfortunately, rightmost belt of 200 pixels is damaged and unable do display any image.
Disable mouse (not touchpad!) in Xorg while idle
I am an avid keyboard user, but I still need the mouse every now and then. To minimize the hand travel, I have the mouse located below my keyboard. (On a side note, using the mouse this way feels more natural to my hand.)
Command line to return to the GUI after Ctrl-Alt-F1?
I’m unable to return to the GUI with Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or any of the 12 function keys). I have some unsaved work and I don’t want to lose them. Are there any other key combinations that will allow me to switch back?
Using native 1366 x 768 resolution in a Lenovo Ideapad
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 100S 14” IBR-14” Intel Celeron CPU N3060 @ 1.60GHz, 32GB SSD, 4GB RAM, based in the Broadwell chipset, running FreeBSD 12.0.
Is there a way to communicate with someone at their desktop?
My wife is sitting at her home desktop, alpha, which is running a recent version of Ubuntu. I am on a bus, using ConnectBot on my G1 phone, and can SSH into alpha from wherever I am.
Unlisted screen resolution
On my new computer I have 2 screens connected on the igpu of a i7 processor, 1 using hdmi. the other using dvi. Both screens are the same but the one connected using hdmi has a wrong resolution inside X, and it can’t be selected inside the settings. How can this be solved?