X11 tricks

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

yup.. that was it! I'm running gnome out of the box from a Fedora Core 1
install. My next bit of home work is to figure out where the -nolisten
gets set...

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:29, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:19:52PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> > I'm having an X11 kufuffle.... I want to go around the X11 tunnel
> > which ssh sets up and do a direct X11 connection, (yes, unencrypted..)
> > For some reason, it does not work on my laptop, but does work on a
> > friends PC. What I do is the following
> > 
> > LaptopPC $ echo $(hostname)
> > LaptopPC.local.net
> > $ xhost +
> > $ ssh Desktop.local.net
> > Desktop $ export DISPLAY=LaptopPC:0.0
> > Desktop $ xclock
> > 
> > nothing comes up. if I don't do the export command above to change
> > the DISPLAY environment variable, xclock pops up. I've check to make
> > sure I have no firewall running, and my hosts.allow and hosts.deny
> > are empty. Can anyone else think of why I cant get xclock to pop up?
> 
> Your X server might not be set up to listen to TCP sockets - it's
> possible that all your local clients (including the relay through ssh)
> are connecting through Unix-domain sockets.
> 
> I suggest this because that's how my Gentoo system is running, which I
> never even knew until I tried repeating your problem :-). Now, looking
> at the process list ("ps ax"), I see this command line:
> 
>   /etc/X11/X -nolisten tcp ...
> 
> If that's the case with you, you'll need to track down who's responsible
> for setting that option - unfortunately, I can't tell after a brief
> exploration where that's being controlled.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance...
> > 
> > Steve.
> > 
> > 
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