Xorg Issues With Other X Sessions And Overclocking In Arch

I just installed Gnome on Arch, and launched it with startx.

I wasn't able to figure out how to cleanly close the Gnome session even after searching for an answer online.

Ctrl Alt Backspace didn't work since it's usually disabled by default.

I had to log into another text terminal (Ctrl Alt F2) and issue sudo killall Xorg.

How can I cleanly close the graphic session and get back to my terminal?

Greetings,
I have been tinkering around with a distribution called gNewSense, a distribution endorsed and sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. I'm currently running version 3.1

I had a question about it.

I was wondering what the default desktop environment is. It looks to me like either Gnome 2 or the MATE desktop environment. I'm not sure which one it is. Both desktop environments look very similar to me.
A few places on the internet seem to indicate that it might actually be Gnome 2, however, I was under the impression that development for that version of the Gnome desktop has long ago stopped, and, in essence, the MATE desktop has taken it's place and continues to be developed for.

Thank you

Hey just signed up after lurking for a bit.

I'm using Mint 17.1 and following the advice in this post to solve my missing menu problem which worked fine.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post4234891

But now after using Code:

mv ~/.config ~/.config.org

my FPS in a steam game went down from 70 to 30.

I did some re-installations in my package manager, but the FPS still sucks.

Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:15:01 2015


Completely removed the following packages:
nvidia-340
nvidia-settings
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Removed the following packages:
xserver-xorg-video-all
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:28:01 2015


Installed the following packages:
nvidia-340 (340.76-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
nvidia-settings (346.47-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:1.0.11+git20141030.3fb97d78-0ubuntu0sarvatt~trusty2)
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:40:46 2015


Reinstalled the following packages:
steam-launcher (1.0.0.47)
I also re-downloaded the game as well to make sure it set a new configuration file if it needed to.

I have installed Berryboot on a Raspberry Pi and at present am running Fedora 21 Mate. I opened the Mate terminal but cannot seem to do anything with it. I tried running 'sudo apt-get update' and keep getting the message ''myname' is not in the sudoers file This incident will be reported'. I have no idea what to do.
Any help would be appreciated.

Brian

Ten years on Linux and this has me stumped.
So I'm putting it in the Newbie thread.

I pulled an Nvidia card out of my box: I suspected a hardware failure with that.

The gear on the motherboard is Intel. An Intel driver is present, and it seems - judging from the logs - to be loading.

I commented out a lot of xorg.conf. There were things in there to help me get my resolution right.
Gone now, but I purged the Nvidia driver anyway.
( sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia )

But I have no GUI.
The login screen appears as expected, mouse and keyboard work.
But when I log into the GUI I get only wallpaper, no menus nor bars nor buttons, nor anything on a right-click.

FWIW I had been using Metacity until now, rather than the latest Gnome desktop.

A CD-bootable Ubuntu still works fine in this box tonight: that makes me suppose I have eliminated any hardware problems.

Any tips would be gratefully accepted.

I think I have seen advice suggesting that a person should just delete lots of desktop config files in a situation such as this. But to me that seems wrong - or maybe hasty.

So I thought I'd ask first.

Many thanks for any help.

Hello, I'm trying to get bumblebee to work running Ubuntu 15.04.
I've followed this guide to get to the point I am now, but I'm getting an error that I couldn't even google the way out of it.

This is what I get from demencia@demencia-laptop:~$ primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL


primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0)

But I was told that that error is not really important that I should have a look at my /var/log/Xorg.8.log, where I found my dead end.

Here's my /var/log/Xorg.8.log
file.

Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I just installed Mint 17 Mate, I created the partition of about 30 gigs, it installes to the point where the linux image is on the desktop, but unfortunately the mouse and keyboard is frozen.

W8.1 64 bit (brand new machine).
I installed the 64 bit Mint Mate iso

It all seemed to be going seamlessly until I started my celebrations

ps. it hadn't gotten to the installation pont where I was able to select the 30g of non-allocated space

Any ideas?

On a fresh install of Arch with little more than openbox installed when I try to startx as a regular user this is the feedback I get:
xauth: timout in locking authority file /home/tim/.Xauthority
xauth: timout in locking authority file /home/tim/.Xauthority
xauth: timout in locking authority file /home/tim/.Xauthority
xauth: timout in locking authority file /home/tim/.Xauthority
Fatal server error:
(EE) cannot open log file "/home/tim/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/tim/.Xauthority

After looking into the error someone suggested to copy the file from root user. When I try to view, less, or open the file I get strange feedback "magic cookie" and then everything starts to trip out and I cant seem to reverse it without a reboot.

Okay so being the newbie with Linux I accidentally installed cinnamon to duel boot with my windows7 instead of mate. Now I ran the code to install mate along with it but I don't won't both on my computer just mate. So is there a code or something that I can run to take cinnamon off and just have mate. Sorry if this is obvious I've searched but found nothing and I'm only a day into my Linux setup. Thanks!

Hello,

I installed Mint 17 xfce onto a friend's HP netbook a few months ago. Up until now all has been working pretty perfectly.

From this evening, she tells me that after she types in her password the following message appears:

no exec. line in this session file [her password appears here in plain text!] running the GNOME failsafe session instead

The only option at this point is seemingly to click ok. After that, this message appears:

Could not find the GNOME installation will try running the failsafe xterm session

Again the only option is to click ok, then this appears for a few seconds:

Cannot find xterm start a failsafe session

Then it goes to a black screen (though you can see the mouse cursor) on which it stays indefinitely.

She tells me that she wasn't trying to do anything other than web browsing and email checking before this started happening so there doesn't seem to be any logical reason behind it. Does anybody have any idea what is happening and how to fix it?