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Re: x11 problems under SL 4, especially when operating remotely
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:19:38 +0200
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>> 3) Trying to avoid the ssh tunneling route does not work at all:
>>
>>     export DISPLAY=blah:0.0
>>
>>     on blah: xhost +
>>
>>    just does not work.
>
> I think that is a feature, they took it out on purpose.  If you need this
> I think you have change the startup scripts for X to re-enable this.

It's the DisallowTCP switch in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.

We've seen problems like those described in (2) with certain builds of 
openssh here a while ago. They were reliably triggered by highlighting 
text in xterm or emacs.

 	Stephan

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