X Server
What to do if my X server stops responding
Jan 14th
Sometimes moue/keyboard in X server stops responding due to bugs in the software. There is a better way to recover if you are planning to hard reboot the system.
You can press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace which will kill the current X session and takes you to the initial login screen.
Another way is to move to text login screen using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then kill the X session after logging in. Later move back to the graphical screen which will be typically present at Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F1 on Fedora Linux systems.
killall -KILL X
How to enable X server on network in Fedora Linux systems
Sep 27th
Please read How to view remote UNIX desktop from Microsoft Windows system to know more about accessing X server from a remote host.
X server comes with built-in support for remote desktop because of its client and server architecture. In Fedora Linux systems, X server is disabled on the network by default. That means the X client programs residing on the same host only can connect to X server. If enabled, typically X server runs on port 6000.
To enable X server on the network, search for DisallowTCP in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file and modify it to look like the following.
DisallowTCP=false
You may have to either restart the More >
How to view remote UNIX desktop from Microsoft Windows system
Sep 27th
X server is the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkit used in almost all flavors of UNIX family of operating systems and most notably Linux and FreeBSD. The famous desktops are KDE and GNOME. X server toolkit has bulit-in support for remote desktops because of its client and server architecture. X server hides the underlying graphics hardware and presents a unified Application Interface (API) for client programs like KDE and GNOME applications. Unlike Microsoft Windows, the client program can reside in another host and X server can reside on another host. i.e A Windows user with a X server software like More >
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