September 15, 2009 · General · Email This Post

The X.Org Server (officially the X.Org Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11) is the X server in the official reference implementation of the X Window System.

This tutorial will explain How to remove,install and reconfigure xorg, without reinstalling ubuntu this is very useful if you messup with your xorg file.

Open terminal and run these commands

Remove existing xorg using the following command

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg

Install xorg using the following command

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg

Reconfigure xorg using the following command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

I hope this helps some users to fix their xorg problems.

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31 Comments to “Ubuntu Tip:How to remove,install and reconfigure xorg without reinstalling ubuntu”

  1. Casydy says:

    thanks, works for me

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