X11 problem in FC4
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Sep 7 08:58:01 UTC 2005
Joachim Backes wrote:
> Im ugraded from FC3 to FC4.
>
> In FC3, it was possible, after making "xhost +somehost", to use X11
> applications on <somehost> with display to localhost:0. But in FC4,
> the X11 application on <somehost> to localhost:0 fails with timeout.
>
> I found no reason for this behaviour, which only happens on localhost,
> but not on other fc4 machines.
>
> Some comments?
I would dispense with xhost and manual setting of the DISPLAY, and
simply use "ssh -Y somehost" from localhost and then just run the
application from the ssh session. Simpler and more secure.
Paul.
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