[GTALUG] Lightdm "Secure Remote connection"

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Mon Feb 8 08:14:51 UTC 2016


On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:58:33AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> A hint online suggested that since I already have X running on :0, I
> should use "X -query localhost:1" which gets much the same error as
> above, with one line changed:

":1" is in the wrong place.  It should be 
    X :1 -query localhost
and go to <Alt-Ctrl-F8>.

> 
>     Fatal server error:
>     (EE) Xserver: Name or service not known: -query localhost:1
> 
> And yet, this command:
> 
>     Xephyr -query localhost -screen 1024x768 -dpi 96 -terminate :1 &
> 
> works exactly as expected, starting X in a box.

I upgraded my Debian-Mate VM to 8.3, and it's using Lightdm.  And, I
can't find any "Secure Remote" thingy on the login screen or in Lightdm
configuration files.
-- 
William


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