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Date:      14 May 2002 10:53:51 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Aidan Skinner <aidan@velvet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes
Message-ID:  <1021339433.81759.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020513203338.C9610@velvet.net>
References:  <20020513203338.C9610@velvet.net>

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On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 05:03, Aidan Skinner wrote:
> 1. remote X from another 4.6-PRE box running XFree86 3 no longer works
> for GTK+ based applications using either ssh X forwarding or setting
> DISPLAY to the remote display.

The default for the X port is to disallow TCP connections by default.

You can fix it by doing 'startx -listen_tcp'.
Or you can edit the startx script.

Or use xdm.

> 2. plaympeg, aviplay etc. all seem to use 16 colors, although gimp,
> galeon, sawfish etc. don't seem to be affected.
> 
> I've had a play with different server modes, but I can't seem to
> figure this out. :(

No idea about that one sorry.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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