how to make X.org listen for incomming connections ?
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Just take out the "-nolisten tcp" and you should be able to run X apps remotely without SSH X tunnelling. I, too, like to run them directly for that little bit of less latency.=B
Thanks qwijibow for persevering with this thread. I have had exactly the same problem and I am about to try the solution outlined by zsazs.
I use Gnome so I hope the Xservers file exists there as well.
For those running plain X servers (not using kdm,xdm or gdm), know that you can set this on a per user basis
by adding a ~/.xserverrc to your home directory, contents of which are:
exec /usr/bin/X -dpi 100
(replace X with wherever your xserver is).
As well, on my gentoo install, the system-wide default file is at -
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
Running OpenSuse11, given that I searched a bit, thought i would update this old thread.
it appears this option has moved to:
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
setting:
# TCP port 6000 of Xserver. When set to "no" (default) Xserver is
# started with "-nolisten tcp". Only set this to "yes" if you really
# need to. Remote X service should run only on trusted networks and
# you have to disable firewall for interfaces, where you want to
# provide this service. Use ssh X11 port forwarding whenever possible.
#
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"
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