Bug#785495: xorg: Xorg does not honour absense of "-nolisten tcp"

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue May 19 20:54:03 UTC 2015


Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 gdm3
Control: retitle -1 gdm3: handle new Xorg "-nolisten tcp" default

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 23:35:10 +0300, Antti Järvinen wrote:

> Julien Cristau writes:
> 
>  > -nolisten tcp is now the default:
>  > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=cc59be38
>  > 
>  > I don't know if gdm has a way to pass -listen options.
>  > 
>  > You should really use ssh forwarding rather than remote X11 directly,
>  > though.
> 
> Yes Sir,
> 
> bug 785495 appears to be closed but please find attached patch anyway, works
> for me, has only 3 additional lines of code.
> 
The issue with this is it'll break on older version of the X server
since the -listen option wasn't known.  Anyway, reopening and moving to
gdm3.

Cheers,
Julien
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