Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

2024-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
expected I am curious - besides chromium which other apps drop the characters ? Is gimp affected ? thank you Vladimir Dergachev I think this question can be closed. Regards Vasil. On 03.11.2024 13:19, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: I checked on Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE and I do not see the effect

Re: Backward highlight-to-copy misses first characters

2024-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
I checked on Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE and I do not see the effect with kwrite. Does kwrite work well for you ? You don't need to switch to KDE window manager to use kwrite. best Vladimir Dergachev On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, Vasily wrote: Hello Recently I noticed that if highlight a

Re: deleting bad probed modeline

2024-10-01 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
and then only those modelines are reported. At least that how thing used to work last time I tried it. best Vladimir Dergachev -- Gleb Smirnoff

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-05 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Vladimir Dergachev Thanks. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session, perhaps this is connected to compositing.. best Vladimir Dergachev On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Hi-A

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-06 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
need Xorg running. best Vladimir Dergachev If it doesn't rely on GL, can you please help clarify why would I want to use Xvnc instead? (Was that suppose to be "If it DOES (rely on GL), to use Xvnc instead"?) Thanks. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Vladimir Dergachev wrot

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-06 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Keep in mind that Xorg will show memory usage from mapping graphics memory.. which could be large on your card. Also, are you using CUDA ? best Vladimir Dergachev On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Hi-Angel wrote: Oh, wow, this looks like a Xorg bug then. I'd recommend trying latest Xorg then —

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

2017-12-06 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Also, given the the high usage does not happen outside of gnome session, perhaps this is connected to compositing.. best Vladimir Dergachev On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Hi-Angel wrote: The troubleshooting link you provided states that the high memory usage typically belongs to some other

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 03 October 2020 00:39:27 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings x-people; The LinuxCNC people have just brought it up from Debian wheezy to buster for a base install. But the security paranoia is

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
key to turn it back on, as the monitor touchscreen turns off with the monitor. best Vladimir Dergachev I have now been 3 days looking for a way to disable this blanker, trying several methods by way of xset, only to find 15 minutes later that its been undone and the blanker kicks in

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: which suggests there are several ways to disable it, including one where you can simulate user activity. This was just a quick look, it would probably be best to talk to light-locker developers. best Vladimir Dergachev And where might I find those

Re: nouveau going off the deep end...

2022-06-19 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
e quake or similar. Try turning off the compositor. Also keep in eye on the fan and GPU temperature. It could be a bug in the driver, but nouveau worked quite well for me on both 18.04 and 20.04 for many years. best Vladimir Dergachev I've included the last of the kernel log. It looks

Re: nouveau going off the deep end...

2022-06-19 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
ike window zoom or making your windows partially transparent. Another suggestion is to try upgrading to 20.04. best Vladimir Dergachev At Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:03:28 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2022, Robert Heller wrote: I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on an AMD Phenom

Re: nouveau going off the deep end...

2022-06-20 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
t the file manager. Ahh, I used FVWM a while back. Nice ! Try 20.04 or later - an install image on a USB stick should be enough to figure out whether the crashes still happen. Maybe the newer driver will fix it for you. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Something is keeping my X awake

2022-07-21 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
the current state is. You can use "xset +dpms" to enable power saving again. best Vladimir Dergachev On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, martin f krafft wrote: Hey there, On my Thinkpad T490, something is keeping the display awake such that XScreensaver will not lock the machine, and DPMS will

Re: Something is keeping my X awake

2022-07-25 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Vladimir Dergachev" on 2022-07-21 at 17:28 Uhr -0400: As Carsten suggested, it seems that it's Firefox. I've quit the browser, and now xset q reports "Monitor is Off" (logged

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
minimal. There is more than one console (usually), you can switch between them with Alt-F1, Alt-F2, etc.. There are also ways to restrict profiling to a single process, like "perf top -p 12345". best Vladimir Dergachev On Saturday, August 26, 2023, 08:10:15 PM GMT+4:30, Da

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
put to a remote display. Will it avoid screen activation in the local machine? There should be a rather drastic difference in speed between VLC displaying locally and in a remote X using network. best Vladimir Dergachev >Since IMC counters appear to be a feature of the powerpc archi

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
nding on whether compositor is enabled, and even depending on how many windows are open as compositor has limits. best Vladimir Dergachev >edit to add: google suggests another candidate might be something >called pin-instatPin works at the source code level. It counts source-level accesses which might not reach DRAM (e.g., services by caches). > > best > > > > Vladimir Dergachev 

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-26 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
that sends "dpms on" the moment a cursor moves. Probably in the Xserver itself. best Vladimir Dergachev > From the point of view of a benchmark you need to be very careful not > alter the task, as modern systems love to optimize. I will have to do some approximations using a combination of the processor and IMC counters.

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
mapped by the graphics driver. Some of those is real memory, some are registers and are entirely virtual - there isn't any physical DRAM backing them. These aren't all the regions exposed by video card, because if multiple apps write to video card register directly it will lock up hard, freezing PCIe bus. Instead, this is arbitrated by the kernel driver. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
etching makes access much faster, so you would read and write non-critical data there, issue a barrier of some sort and then trigger by writing to register in non-prefetchable space. This is pure speculation, read noveau driver to find out. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
/dev/nvidiactl 7f0e6c0d-7f0e6c0e3000 rw-s 00:05 475 /dev/nvidiactl and many more similar entries. However, in both cases the focus is on communication with the kernel driver and the hardware, not the Xserver. best Vladimir Dergachev Is Opengl mapped only into the server portion?

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-27 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
management. best Vladimir Dergachev Regards.

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-28 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
quot; driver (Nvidia card) or amdgpu (AMD card). best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Keeping the Screen Turned off While Getting Inputs

2023-08-28 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
uding perf and Xorg. best Vladimir Dergachev https://askubuntu.com/a/766282/926952 It seems that I was wrong and only one GPU is being used?!

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-30 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
s them - which is xrandr. And don't forget to specify which of 5 screen you have running you actually mean. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-30 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
is is what — as „man” page states — I And this what you get. Now when I say "Screen" I mean large rectangular matrix of pixels I can paint on. Which is pretty much what any application cares about - you don't need to paint outside of screen. What do you mean by "Screen&

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-30 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/randrproto/tree/randrproto.txt best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-31 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
needed compatibility breaking changes every year the way python does. best Vladimir Dergachev -- regards, Zbigniew

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-08-31 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
ses t'll be still Xorg server, anyway. Take a look at libxrandr, there are more details in an earlier e-mail. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: TWM & Odd Menu Issue

2023-09-02 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
and moving it back fixes the problem. Another thing to try is to make sure you don't have some phantom key pressed - "xev" is helpful for this. best Vladimir Dergachev The problem is more captured here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/latest-chro

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-05 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
have done something similar to what you want to do. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-08 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
nal virtual screen intact. If you want to make a better Xvnc, you probably need the code above and you might not need xrandr. If you are doing something else - who knows what you mean ? best Vladimir Dergachev -- regards, Zbigniew

Re: Xlib: DisplayWidth / DisplayHeight

2023-09-12 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
uch as gtk and Qt. best Vladimir Dergachev If you do teleconferencing, you might want to capture either the entire screen, or some window. If you want to record a movie of a game playing fullscreen, than you probably need the position and dimensions of the game window, because games often change

Re: Debugging multiple X11 servers spawning

2023-09-18 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
t create X servers, so it has to be local - maybe you are mistaking screen unlock for logging in with a new session. best Vladimir Dergachev You'll probably find logs in /var/log. Specifically /var/log/Xorg* You might also find the output of $ systemctl status display-manager help

Re: [synaptics] Require minimal finger move for moving cursor

2024-04-12 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
long time. Dell touchpads are usually pretty good. I suggest to check which touchpad driver is being used, there might be some useful messages in dmesg or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Another possibility is that the battery went bad, is buldging and pushing on the touchpad. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Does xorg/X11 support Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] from AMD/ATI?

2024-07-04 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
this is good news. Alternatively, try installing AMD drivers from a link above. best Vladimir Dergachev On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, William Bulley wrote: I don't understand how xorg deals with newer hardware, but I suspect this device (Rembrandt [Radeon 680M]) being rather new, may not y

Re: Does xorg/X11 support Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] from AMD/ATI?

2024-07-05 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, William Bulley wrote: According to Vladimir Dergachev on Thu, 07/04/24 at 15:26: This depends on the card and the manufacturer. For NVidia, there are usually close-sourced NVidia drivers and an open source noveau driver that might take some time to catchup for a newer

Re: Anyone do anything to the keyboard driver recently? (last 6 mos)

2024-07-09 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
program stealing the keysyms. best Vladimir Dergachev -- You can't out-crazy a Democrat. #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

Re: scroll lock disabled by default

2024-07-25 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
ml I think now one can simply remap the key in the configuration utility. best Vladimir Dergachev -- Gruß Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1721918278mu...@cartoonies.org

Re: Where can I get very basic Debian help?

2024-11-25 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
a to do a clean install. best Vladimir Dergachev Thanks, Matt Timpson 🍉 Sent from Proton Mail Android

Re: Request for Help: Xorg "No screens found" Issue on Arch Linux with NVIDIA and Intel GPUs

2024-12-31 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
t any additional configuration. With NVidia drivers you can use the NVidia control panel to fine tune some settings. best Vladimir Dergachev On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, falsify7...@proton.me wrote: Dear Xorg Team, I am reaching out to seek help with a persistent issue I am facing with Xorg on my Arch

Re: Is there anything missing when forwarding my X11 connections?

2025-02-09 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
This reminds me of the difference between ssh -X and ssh -Y options, maybe a look at ssh code will give you ideas. best Vladimir Dergachev On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Christophe Lohr wrote: Hello,   Please excuse the naivety of my question; I'm trying to understand how things work. I t

Re: RTX 5070 Ti with RTX 3050

2025-05-19 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Hard to tell from the log snippet - is the error from the 3050 card or 5xxx card ? If the latter, you can instruct xorg to only pay attention to one card - I think the device section in the xorg.conf would do it. You don't need xorg to run CUDA on the card. best Vladimir Dergache

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:44:25 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev said: I see. Hmm.. But then every window has a huge overhead, even when it obscured. Do you know if anyone run scalability tests? What happens if I have 1000 windows? yes. welcome

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:41:54 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev said: I am using KDE right now, and the kwin compositor has 3 choices for "keep window thumbnails": "Never", "Only for shown windows" and "Al

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 13 Jun 2025, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 6/12/25 06:44, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Also, before I only had to worry whether Xorg has drivers for my video card, but now it is the question of whether kwin or enlightenment has it. Every Wayland compositor I've seen relies on the k

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-13 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
s machine by machine you register/connect to. the compositor has no clue what is inside that app's window. in wayland or x11. it's the app's business. Not really - I just run x11vnc on the remote and connect to it. I don't start a new session, and I don't change fonts. Very handy, both to help someone else and to use your desktop when you are away. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: list banning

2025-06-07 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
it should come first. What's going on? Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-09 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
g work in other parts, but it not that user visible.) I think a lot of controversy will disappear if we view Wayland not as a successor of X with carefull thought out protocol and lightweight clients, but rather as "super-VNC", without the network part. Though the networking might

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-09 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
one can get to this nowadays is Tcl/Tk, and you only get the names from within the interpreter. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-22 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Xorg, as long as you can download source code from the Internet it does not go away. Get the source, compile it, see if it works. If there are problems, solve them and share the code back if your agreements allow it. best Vladimir Dergachev You can just say that, and that's what I w

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-14 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:34:59 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev said: Intel Core i7-8550U not that old really. my old laptop is that. no dedicated gpu though. I found that restarting kwin and restarting plasmashell helps, and also occasionally

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-15 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 15 Jun 2025, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 6/14/25 12:45, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Imagine consumers using organic led wallpaper to cover walls and expecting to put windows with pictures, videos and homework there. Suppose you have low- resolution cheap OLED wallpaper, 96dpi. 5 meters

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-11 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
y than through wayland library. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-12 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev said: On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: the windows on screen with a different offset. keeping other controls like your pager/shelf/whatever overlayed where they are is

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-11 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
d have a common access saved buffer but it is too much of a hack and hastle to get all this generically working. So no matter how much I like labwc it will not replace my X wm choices. On X you would just do "xhost +" and do what you need to do. best Vladimir Dergachev If my coding s

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-11 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
nsible for this. Maybe I am missing something here, but I thought virtual screens in X were implemented by having a large framebuffer, in GPU memory and having CRTC send a subset of it to the monitor. So this is done very close to the hardware, and if Wayland does not do that who does? best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-11 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Vladimir Dergachev said: On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote: The only misinformation I see comes from Wayland advocates. well "the lack of virtual screens in wayland" earlier

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-04 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
employed to work on Xorg. In USA that usually means two weeks notice, so that is the total extent of the "commitment". If they have to switch to a new job it will likely displace any open source contributions for at least a month. People having fun produce good code. Don't mess with it. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-07 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: On 7/7/25 00:05, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: With KDE (kubuntu) there is "Discover" package manager that runs from user space. It asks you for root password before you install. I actually thought that's how synaptic worked as we

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-07 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
t versions from different LTS Kubuntu releases, and the mouse works fine in all of them, trackballs and touchpads included. You can also try KDE package manager along the way. best Vladimir Dergachev

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-08 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
-0.4, while mine is +0.4. What do you get for feedback parameters? Mine are: volodya@iridium:~$ xinput --get-feedbacks 11 1 feedback class PtrFeedbackClass id=0 accelNum is 2 accelDenom is 1 threshold is 4 (11 is the id of my trackball). best Vladimir Dergachev On M

Re: evince crashes the X server

2025-07-09 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Odd error. I don't see any hits on Google for imprecise_trapezoid_span_converter Can you try running find /usr/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H imprecise_trapezoid_span_converter On my systems this returns nothing. Vladimir Dergachev On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

Re: evince crashes the X server

2025-07-10 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 10/7/25 14:57, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Odd error. I don't see any hits on Google for imprecise_trapezoid_span_converter Can you try running find /usr/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H imprecise_trapezoid_span_converter grep:

Re: evince crashes the X server

2025-07-10 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Interesting! This suggests your intel driver is rather new and has this bug, as on my systems (Kubuntu LTS) intel_drv.so does not have references to

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-06 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
root password before you install. I actually thought that's how synaptic worked as well, but maybe I forget. Starting X apps as another user will not work unless you share your Xauthority file or disable that. best Vladimir Dergachev Back at you. Vladimir Dergachev Cheers, Gene Hes

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-06 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sat, 5 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: On 7/5/25 01:32, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: There are many developers having fun with Xorg. Some on the list, some not, some will reply to you, some not. There might be some that are employed to work on Xorg. In USA that usually means two weeks