[LightDM] xserver-allow-tcp

[Robert Ancell]

It's documented in -help [1] and in the man page [2]...

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/os/utils.c#n562
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/man/Xserver.man#n209

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 09:23 Ronald Hoogenboom <hoogenboom30 at zonnet.nl>
wrote:

> I wouldn't know about that. Anyway it is not a documented option, so it is
> not good practice to depend on it. I am (pretending to be) a clueless user
> that sees it 'doesn't work anymore'.
>
> I can have a look at the src.rpm and see if there is any patch that
> disables it...
>
>
>
> On 10/06/2015 10:14 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
>
> 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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