X11 display issues

Tom Rudnick tom at avatar.itc.nrcs.usda.gov
Fri Feb 23 05:03:20 EST 2001


> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:35:21AM -0600, William L. Jones wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Seconded.  SCO doesn't have unix domain sockets either, so please make
> them optional.
> 
> gert

Unixware 2.x does have unix domain sockets, but the X11 implementation
may not support them.

Enabling X11 forwarding in the latest version on Unixware 2.x results
in the following xauth error:

/usr/X/bin/xauth: (stdin):2:  bad display name "hostname/unix:10.0" 
in "add" command

-Tom 
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