Try compile easy code from this page: http://webhamster.ru/site/page/index/articles/comp/367 It’s sample of get global keyboard event. This small app working as xinput. Remark 1: Write device ID to mian.cpp (get ID by running xinput without parameters): sprintf(deviceId, “9”); Remark 2: Compile command: gcc ./main.cpp -lstdc++ -lX11 -lXext -lXi Remakr 3: Before compile, install libxi-dev package: apt-get … Read more
Other answers are outdated, or incomplete, or simply don’t work. You need to also specify an X-11 server on the host machine to handle the launch of GUId programs. If the client is a Windows machine install Xming. If the client is a Linux machine install XQuartz. Now suppose this is Windows connecting to Linux. … Read more
Here’s a description how unclutter utility does it. Unclutter is a program which runs permanently in the background of an X11 session. It checks on the X11 pointer (cursor) position every few seconds, and when it finds it has not moved (and no buttons are pressed on the mouse, and the cursor is not in … Read more
The short answer is that you have to set the DISPLAY environment variable, and then the app will run. The long answer is that we’ve got Xauth, and unless you’re running as the same user on the same machine that’s probably not going to work unless you export the Xauth credential from the account running … Read more
Hmm, ok. I’d suggest code like this, then: typedef struct { int type; int result; } DialogData; static gboolean display_dialog(gpointer user_data) { DialogData *dialog_data = user_data; GtkWidget *dialog; if (dialog_data->type & MB_YESNO) dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new(…); else dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new(…); // Set title, etc. dialog_data->result = gtk_dialog_run(…); gtk_main_quit(); // Quits the main loop run in MessageBox() … Read more
I looked at global hotkeys back in the early 90s for Irix, ultrix and solaris, as it had been easy to do on my Acorn BBC computer. Eventually we decided on solving this in a non-portable way on a level below xlib with some proprietary code. Since our software installation needed as superuser priviliges anyway, … Read more
Update (Sep. 17, 2017): NVIDIA recently published an article detailing how to use OpenGL on headless systems, which is a very similar use case as the question describes. In summary: Link to libOpenGL.so and libEGL.so instead of libGL.so. (Your linker options should therefore be -lOpenGL -lEGL Call eglGetDisplay, then eglInitialize to initialize EGL. Call eglChooseConfig … Read more
This is an ssh issue, not a git issue. What you are seeing is not a git whine, it’s a valid warning from your ssh client. You should ensure that your ssh config doesn’t attempt X11 forwarding by default (git doesn’t need it), or at least turn it off for the host you are connecting … Read more
I figured it out. When you are connecting to a computer with SSH and using X11 forwarding, /tmp/.X11-unix is not used for the X communication and the part related to $XSOCK is unnecessary. Any X application rather uses the hostname in $DISPLAY, typically “localhost” and connects using TCP. This is then tunneled back to the … Read more
The app you copy from advertises formats (mostly identified by MIME types) it can provide. The app you paste into has to pick its preferred format and request that one from the source app. The reason you may not see all style info transferred is that the apps don’t both support a common format that … Read more