[TriLUG] X server now doesn't listen for X clients

[Stephen P. Schaefer via TriLUG]

Most modern distributions turn off TCP support for X11 servers; you'll
see a flag on the X11 process like "--nolisten tcp".  It varies by
distribution what the "correct" way is to remove that disability.

    - Stephen

On 7/15/20 1:22 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Bill Farrow wrote:
> 
>> Did you authorise clients to connect with  "xhosts +"  ?
> 
> yes
> 
>>> If I set
> 
> .
> .
> 
>>> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
>>> or
>>> export DISPLAY=my_ip:0
>>>
>>> and run an X client (eg xhost +) I get
>>>
>>> cannot open $DISPLAY
> 
> so even "xhost +" fails
> 
> Nothing's going to work if X isn't listening on port 6000
> 
> Joe
>