[indiana-discuss] unable to export my x application displays back to opensolaris deskto

Bryan Boone Bryan.Boone at sas.com
Thu May 22 08:06:03 PDT 2008


I'm in the same boat....
One line fixed if for me in Linux/KDE...
Solaris still has me baffled. (But in a good way)
-B

Brett wrote:
> hmm, ok i found a configuration file for gdm which seems to have a relevant parameter :-
> 
> -bash-3.2# grep -i tcp /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
> # If true this will basically append -nolisten tcp to every X command line, a
> # a "-nolisten tcp", as then the query just wouldn't work, so this setting only
> #DisallowTCP=true
> # Note: Is your X server not listening to TCP requests?  Refer to the
> # security/DisallowTCP setting!
> 
> as per the header i took a copy of this file and placed it /etc/X11/gdm as custom.conf and tried forcing the DisallowTcp :-
> -bash-3.2# grep -i tcp /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf
> # If true this will basically append -nolisten tcp to every X command line, a
> # a "-nolisten tcp", as then the query just wouldn't work, so this setting only
> #DisallowTCP=true
> # Note: Is your X server not listening to TCP requests?  Refer to the
> # security/DisallowTCP setting!
> DisallowTCP=false
> 
> this also has made no difference as after reboot my running Xorg process still has -nolisten tcp and i have no service listening on port 6000 and my x apps still get ünable to open display¨.. Sigh
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