[lug] remote clients can't display on FC3/KRUD

Michael J. Hammel mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Sat Jun 18 23:45:00 MDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 18:19 -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> By default the X11 servers accept only UDP connections...remote machines 
> use TCP. You have to turn on the TCP option in
> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> There is a line there, DisallowTCP=true. Kind of misleading, as not 
> having this parameter still disallows TCP. Change it to DisallowTCP=false.

That's the ticket.  Thanks D. I can now run GIMP on the server and
display it on the laptop to continue working on my next book.
Woohoo!  :-)
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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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