Xserver startup configuration
The default Bodhi Xserver starts with -nolisten tcp - and while I get that this is more secure, I need to let the Xserver listen for TCP connections for a couple of work-related apps that simply are old-school X, and won't be changed. Ssh port-forwarding does not work here. These apps take the value of $DISPLAY and open X clients on the local server - but based on passing this variable on to another host. Thus, it requires $DISPLAY to be in the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:nn
So, I have looked, but cannot get the Xserver to start without "-nolisten tcp". How does this get configured? |
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HTH. |
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Well, thank you for the admonishment. It is *so* much help when someone tells you to read the man pages. But I was looking for some bodhi linux expert, not a crackpot. I have modified the file /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc - the line in that file is exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" I took out the "-nolisten tcp", and restarted X, rebooted. No change. So, is the Xserver compiled with this hardcoded? |
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I must add that in ubuntu, you can change a variable in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf which changes the behavior. Same with other window managers. In bodhi, I am perplexed because there is lxdm and enlightenment and I have been unable to discover which one changes the X server behavior. |
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I can't prove it but I doubt that the Xserver was compiled with this hardcoded. From my limited experience with x I'd guess that it is a side effect from some other option (which I can't pinpoint in the man page). I guess you'll have to wait anyhow for the expert you hoped for ;). |
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So, the issue is with lxdm. I really like the way the bodhi linux developers integrated everything with E17 and I don't want to give that up. There has to be a way to configure lxdm with Xserver arguments. I just do not know what file to edit, and in what form the variable gets set. |
We choose LXDM because it is light and fairly basic.
For what you are looking to do is there a reason you can't just install/use GDM as it seems to support what you need? ~Jeff |
From the sound of it I'd guessed that LXDM is closest to XDM. Am I wrong or why do you suggest DDM?
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