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Commands tagged display

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DISPLAY=":0.0" import -window root screenshot.png
2012-02-05 11:52:33
User: 0disse0
Tags: display
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To capture a remote screen

But if you use a screen saver, you must first disable your screen saver

kill $(ps ax | grep screensaver | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }')

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ck-list-sessions
2012-01-02 08:53:41
User: unhammer
Tags: X11 display xorg user consolekit active
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how to find the active X (X11/xorg) username and DISPLAY variable

Requires consolekit (works in e.g. Ubuntu). Here x11-display is DISPLAY

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<Ctrl><Alt><F6> killall5
2011-09-07 19:19:34
User: totti
Tags: display logout killall5
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Get rid from a blank display without reboot

Killall5 will kill your session and redirect to login screen.

-Very useful when suffering display problems.

-Can use F1-F6

-Need to login in the particular console if not already

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nvidia-settings -a AssociatedDisplays=0x00010000
2011-02-11 22:56:37
User: sharkyo
Tags: display nvidia
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fix nvidia-settings display error

When nvidia-settings gets itself into a funk and displays the error

"Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page", then use

this script to make it reset itself.

reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1047029.html

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qrurl() { curl -sS "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chld=H|0&chl=$1" -o - | display -filter point -resize 600x600 png:-; }
2010-12-16 04:42:05
User: __
Tags: ImageMagick curl function display
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Create QR codes from a URL.

like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL:

qrurl http://xkcd.com
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xrandr -s 1280x1024
2010-02-26 10:56:14
User: ivanatora
Tags: display xrandr
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Change display resolution

-s must be a valid resolution. You can get a list of valid (and supported) resolutions via `xrandr`.

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DISPLAY=":0.0" import -window root screenshot.png
2010-02-17 13:02:24
User: walterl
Tags: Linux remote display screenshot import
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Remote screenshot

The `export` is unnecessary if it's only applicable to the one command.

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export DISPLAY=":0.0" && import -window root screenshot.png
2010-02-17 12:13:49
User: fraktil
Functions: export
Tags: Linux remote display screenshot import
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Remote Screenshot

Like the given command, but combines _DISPLAY=":0.0"_ with _export DISPLAY_ to get _export DISPLAY=":0.0"_ and only imports if DISPLAY is set successfully.

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display http://dilbert.com$(curl -s dilbert.com|grep -Po '"\K/dyn/str_strip(/0+){4}/.*strip.[^\.]*\.gif')
2009-12-05 19:35:27
User: wizel
Functions: grep
Tags: curl display comic
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Display Dilbert strip of the day

Requires display.

Corrected version thanks to sputnick and eightmillion user.

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ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
2009-05-29 18:52:12
User: unixmonkey4003
Functions: grep sed strings
Tags: macosx hardware display
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Show display type
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