GDM setup

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon May 19 17:42:45 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:35 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:50 -0600, John.Mizell at tch.com wrote:
> >> It seem that there is not an setup gui for GDM now in fedora 9. I also
> >> checked to see the documentation at
> >> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration but it it not clear on how to
> >> enable remote x11 apps to display locally.
> >> Is there a work around and will this be added in a gui setup later on?
> > 
> > Just having remote X11 apps display locally does not really involve gdm
> > and should work fine in F9. If you are talking about xdmcp, them yes,
> > that does not currently work. The basic support for it is there, but it
> > is not quite complete, afaik.
> > 
> Actually, it does involve gdm.  When starting the Xserver, gdm tacks on
> a "-nolisten tcp" argument, inhibiting direct display to the Xserver.
> You can work around this using "ssh -X" to tunnel the X-display, but this
> may break some existing work-flows.  There used to be a config param
> in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to set DisallowTCP=false to acheive this.  An
> equivalent setting doesn't show up in the new gdm schemas.

Yeah, I guess for me 'remote X' is synonymous to 'ssh -X' (or rather -Y
nowadays). Really, the right thing to do is to update those existing
work-flows. The default firewall configuration won't let straight X
connections through, anyway.... 

Is there some specific reason why ssh tunneling does not work for you ?




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