[LightDM] xserver-allow-tcp

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 13:14:42 PDT 2015


Looking in the git branch for the Xorg server the listen command is still
supported. Has Fedora disabled this option for some reason?


On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 08:52 Ronald Hoogenboom <hoogenboom30 at zonnet.nl>
wrote:

> lightdm-1.10.5-2.fc21.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.3-2.fc21.x86_64
>
> Lightdm puts the -[no]listen tcp command line option for the X server
> depending on the xserver-allow-tcp config setting (true or false). Since
> the last yum update, the Xorg server does not accept the undocumented
> -listen option anymore and exits with status 1. I am forced to set
> xserver-allow-tcp to false and therefore cannot have my remote x clients
> connect anymore.
>
> There seems to be no way to completely omit either -listen or -nolisten
> option.
>
> Obvious workaround could be to make a wrapper script for Xorg, but it
> would be nicer if this would be handled properly in lightdm.
>
> Bugzilla reference @redhat:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269247
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.
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