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Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 [solved]

From	Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 [solved]
Date	2018-09-23 18:10 +0200
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On 9/23/18 2:36 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> 
> On 23/09/2018 13:48, Grzegorz Sójka wrote:
> 
>> I need to allow remote applications to connect to xorg. Since I log in 
>> using lxdm i have tcp_listen=1 in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf. Thus Xorg is 
>> running without -nolisten tcp flag. Unfortunately:
>>
>> $ xhost +localhost; DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 xterm
>> localhost being added to access control list
>> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0
>>
>> Any suggestions??
> 
> Did you check port 6000?
> root@pc6:~# netstat -anp | grep 6000
> tcp   0   0 0.0.0.0:6000   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN   2684/Xorg
> tcp6  0   0 :::6000        :::*        LISTEN   2684/Xorg

Bingo! The command gave me empty output. Now -nolisten tcp is the 
default Xorg behaviour. Thus, you need to add -listen tcp flag 
explicitly. I added:
arg=/usr/bin/X -background vt07 -listen tcp
to /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf and now it works perfectly.

-- 
Pozdrawiam
Grzesiek

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cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Grzegorz Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 11:50 +0200
  Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-09-23 12:40 +0200
    Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2018-09-23 14:30 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 14:40 +0200
    Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 14:30 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-09-23 15:10 +0200
        Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 15:20 +0200
          Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-09-23 15:40 +0200
        Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-09-23 15:20 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-09-23 15:10 +0200
        Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 15:10 +0200
          Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-09-23 15:30 +0200
            Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-23 17:50 +0200
    Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-23 16:10 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-09-23 18:00 +0200
  Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2018-09-23 16:40 +0200
    Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-23 18:00 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-24 15:40 +0200
    Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 [solved] Grzesiek Sójka <pld@sojka.co> - 2018-09-23 18:10 +0200
      Re: cannot open display: localhost:0.0 [solved] Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2018-09-23 23:20 +0200

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