FWIW: for me x2x works now the way it should, in Lucid, without having
to resort to funny xauth tricks (like I had to with karmic). So on my
desktop I just run:
ssh -XC usern...@laptop 'x2x -west -to :0.0'
and it does what i want it to do.
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x2x sharing problem i karmic
Hi all,
I think saghauer may be right, the screen brightness is probably not a
graphics card issue, as it is just the setting of the brightness of the
backlight. Still, under /proc/acpi, the brightness is listed under vga.
In particular:
cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness
levels: 5 11 17
I can confirm that ubuntu probably has a problem with intel graphics,
and that in particular the brightness setting is one of the symptoms.
When I ran karmic, the graphics worked fine, including brightness
adjustment (with applet and with function keys).
Yesterday (Saturday June 12) I upgraded
@Brian, Claus: at ubuntuforums it was suggested
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309289) that this is maybe
(indeed) more a gdm issue than an x2x issue.
@Robert: I tried your workaround script and it works, thanks! I needed a
little tweak though; our network administrator assigned a
