get rid of -nolisten tcp

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get rid of -nolisten tcp

Postby mtm » Jan 24th, '18, 23:37

Hi guys,

On Mageia 6. I need to enable the X Server to listen to tcp.
using grep I found the -nolisten tcp option in quite a number of files both in /etc and in various scripts in /usr
I replaced ALL of them with -listen tcp. Yet ... the server still starts with the -nolisten option.

What is going on ? Is some sort of binary file that have hardcoded that option inside or what ?
As a suggestion: Please make that configurable from the management GUI.

Thank you,
MTM
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Re: get rid of -nolisten tcp

Postby markwk » Jan 25th, '18, 18:34

I've never been able to get this to work with any distro using sddm. Putting ServerArguments="-listen tcp" into sddm.conf just does not work for me.
So to workaround this, I changed my session manager to lxdm, and put the following in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

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arg=/usr/bin/X -background -listen tcp
# uncomment this if you really want xserver listen to tcp
tcp_listen=1


Also I changed /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers accordingly.

The display manager is set in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, i.e.

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DISPLAYMANAGER=LXDM


Of course you have to install lxdm to get this to work.

If anyone has solved the problem with sddm I'd love to hear of it.
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Re: get rid of -nolisten tcp

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 25th, '18, 20:17

mtm wrote:As a suggestion: Please make that configurable from the management GUI.

As a suggestion, if you actually want to have that changed, this is the wrong place. Best raise a feature request for that, if it wouldn't have been reported already (read below) https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

Although this setting can already be changed from MCC via msec. It's on the first screenshot at http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/6/en/content/ ... ml#d4e3184
See also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19612
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[SOLVED] Re: get rid of -nolisten tcp

Postby mtm » Feb 13th, '18, 17:49

Found this tool:

http://www.mageia-gr.org/rpm/6/x86_64/s ... x86_64.rpm

install it and then in the tax X11 type:

-listen tcp

in the field "Arguments passed to the X server invocation"

then it works.

To bad that this useful tool is not in the main repository.
Hope this helps ...
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Re: get rid of -nolisten tcp

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 13th, '18, 23:14

Well, that only applies when using sddm, and you don't need a tool for that - you can simply edit /etc/sddm.conf.
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