Info on "Can't open display"
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu Jun 14 11:54:00 GMT 2001
May be if you read the X11 socket and display basics here
http://www.madisonlinux.org/minutes/X-presentation.html
you might understand more how an x client display on an x-server...
basically
in Xwindows world nothing works without TCP/IP.
X is a network protocol as much as anything. All X communications between
the X server and client programs is done through TCP/IP and sockets (even
locally). There is little to no distinction with regard to where a program
runs, and where the output is displayed.
So if something modify and conrols the network, then you will face a display
problem.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Landrieu [ mailto:landrieu@hotmail.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Info on "Can't open display"
>
>
> >Well, I am not convienced with your tests and explainations ;-)
> >
> >BECAUSE, I tested a several VPN and Firewall software,
> except Aventail,
> >and none of them interfere with X-server. Though, a couple of them
> >prompt, "client X is trying to connect to port so and so,
> Allow or deny"
> >and
> >I
> >can add a rule to allow permanently, instead of clicking a YES button
> >eachtime.
>
> But the problem doesn't seem to be with the X server. Remote
> and local
> xclients (other than the xfree86 ones) can connect and
> display with no
> problem.
>
> >As I see from mailing list, majority of the users who have
> display problems
> >are using Aventail.
> >It is not xclient as you try to explain in your reasonings... it is
> >Aventail stopping the Xclient to connect to X-server.
>
> There are also many users who have this problem but are not
> using Aventail.
> As well the local xclients can't even connect to a remote
> display (non
> cygwin/xfree86). Also, eXceed works with Aventail with no problems.
>
> By your reasoning, telneting to port 6000 should also be stopped by
> Aventail, but it isn't. If telnet can make a successful
> TCP/IP connection
> to localhost port 6000, why wouldn't the cygwin/xfree86
> xterm? This is the
> point that I would like explained. What is telnet doing
> different than the
> X libraries?
>
> Chris
>
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