[maemo-developers] Xephyr trouble

[From: Claudio Scordino]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ext Claudio Scordino wrote:
>> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:2
>>
>> in the .bashrc inside Scratchbox.
> 
> IMHO it's bad practice to add host to the DISPLAY setting.
> 
> 1) It makes X clients to use inet socket instead of unix socket
>    which doesn't work if you run X server with "-nolisten tcp"
>    argument as you should (e.g. Ubuntu doesn't use firewall, so
>    without that you've opened a socket to network)
> 
> 2) On the device local connection is used instead of inet
>    one, so your x86 test setup differs unnecessarily from
>    the device one.
> 

Hi,

I found these settings on some webpage around (don't remember which), but I 
agree with you that it's not a good practice.

So, how should I set the configuration in order to make Xephyr work with a unix 
socket ?

Many thanks,

         Claudio