Bug 32958 – xfree-4.3.0-r3: Remote access through $DISPLAY broken?

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2003-11-07 10:42:50 UTC]

Since xfree-4.3.0-r3, I can't run any X apps remotely.
e.g. I have 2 gentoo systems, laptop and desktop.
I want to run an application on laptop, to appear on desktop's screen.
desktop has IP 192.168.0.2

My usual process of doing this:
On desktop:
xhost +

On laptop:
export DISPLAY="192.168.0.2:0"
MozillaFirebird

Normally this would make mozilla appear on desktops screen. But since -r3, the
laptop outputs this error on the console:
cannot open display: 192.168.0.2:0

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Matt Taylor 2003-11-07 11:03:57 UTC]

This is because -r3 disabled X listening for connections.  see bug 10599.
 It really should be a setting in conf.d or something instead of editing
the startx script.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-11-07 11:24:13 UTC]

listening is disabled by default

edit your config files and remove the -nolisten option