X11 display issues

[William L. Jones]

Keep the Internet domain sockets at least for a few systems.   Cray 
UNICOS  X11 does not support unix domain sockets.

Do both but configure unix domain sockets by default at let porters add a 
define to
do Internet domain sockets instead of unix domain sockets.

Bill Jones


At 04:13 PM 2/21/01 +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 04:03:18PM +0100, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> > This also has been discussed in SSHSCI's SSH context. All SSH versions
> > (both SSHSCI and OpenSSH) derive value for DISPLAY variable from
> > `uname -n`. The problem is that the returned value is not necessarily
> > resolvable to a valid IP number which in turn might cause a failure.
>
>oh yes, this is a problem. i will probably change the sshd-X11-proxy
>from internet to unix domain sockets.
>
>libX is broken if i set DISPLAY=localhost:x.y and ignore any
>X cookies.
>
> > To make it fool-proof I suggest to set DISPLAY to the interface's
> > address the user has reached the system in question through.
>
>I tried this before, but it does not work since it uses AF_INET6 if
>i connect by
>         $ ssh -X ::1
>
>so it's not really acceptible. I'm still looking for a better
>solution...
>
>-markus