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@xxxxxxx 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 ? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
