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|    Harold Johanssen to Lew Pitcher    |
|    Re: xhost not working under TigerVNC    |
|    24 Oct 22 14:59:28    |
      From: noemail@please.net              On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:38:27 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:              > On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:42:30 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:       >       >> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:23:40 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:       >>> This implies that the vncserver X server /does not/ use TCP to       >>> converse with X clients, but instead uses the X "Local" support       >>> (shared memory, unix socket, etc). So, nothing is listening for the       >>> traffic made "local"       >>> to localhost.localnet by ssh X11Forwarding.       >>       >> Ouch. Well, if so, maybe that problem can be circumvented with       >> something like Xnest or Xephyr running on host A.       >       > Or, apparently, recompiling the vncserver X server to include TCP/IP       > support :-)               Actually, I have just been informed that that's not necessary:       it's just a matter of editing /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults and       adding the line               listen=tcp              which I have experimentally confirmed to be correct. It would be nice if       this could be documented more prominently (or at all) but, at the very       least, the capability is there.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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