suse: how to override X security settings

[Net Llama!]

On 05/05/2006 11:52 PM, Steve Jardine wrote:
> Which version of SUSE?

10, 9.3, SLES9

> 
> I am running 9.2, and have tried 10.0. In both I just do a xhost for the system
> that will be exporting windows to me, and then set the DISPLAY on the remote
> system, and then start the X app. In a few cases I have to start the 
> x app with -display remote_system:0.0.
> 
> Does this not work?

Yes, it works fine, but that's not what i'm trying to do.  I'm trying to 
connect to the X server.

> 
> Steve
> 
> On Thu, 04 May 2006 21:13:44 -0700
> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/04/2006 08:01 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 04, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>> >>For all of you SuSE fans, how can I override the X security settings 
>> >>(like what allows apps to connect to the X server)?
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure what you mean by that question.
>> > 
>> > We run all X applications other than the window manager and the
>> > things it launches directly via ssh so that we don't have to
>> > worry about setting DISPLAY and dealing with xhosts.
>> 
>> Sorry, i wasn't referring to ssh, but rather the fact that Suse seems to 
>> only have their X server listening on a hostless port.  Every other 
>> distro i've used runs on $hostname:0 whereas suse listens on :0
>> What I'm trying to figure out is how to force suse to behave like 
>> debian, redhat, slackware, gentoo, ubuntu & mandriva.


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