Ticket #170 (closed usability: invalid)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

default X11 tunneling breaks my apps

Reported by: lagerdl@… Owned by: jeremyhu@…
Priority: Not Set Milestone: 2.3.2
Component: xserver Version: 2.3.1 (xserver-1.4.2-apple17)
Keywords: ssh tunneling Cc:

Description

It seems that the default for the server is to use ssh tunneling. I have apps that need to use DISPLAY as <hostname>:0.0 which no longer works in XQuartz 2.1.5 and 2.3.1. Is there a way to change the default so the above syntax will work again?

Thanks in advance,

Darrel Lager

Change History

Changed 3 years ago by jeremyhu@…

  • status changed from new to closed
  • priority changed from critical to trivial
  • resolution set to invalid
  • milestone set to 2.3.2

What do you mean "the default for the server is to use ssh tunneling" Please elaborate.

1) What "server" are you talking about? X11 doesn't care about ssh. 2) Apps don't NEED to use DISPLAY as <hostname>:<display num>. They need DISPLAY to be a valid text field that can be used by XOpenDisplay to connect to a valid server. Note that <display num> is not always 0 too. 3) You can use tcp for X11 if you really want to instead of ssh tunneling, but you need to enable that option in the security settings in the X11 preferences. In other words, if you want to open yourself up to a security problem, you need to specifically enable that security hole.

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