using laptop as second monitor?

[Felix Kühling]

Am Sonntag, den 05.03.2006, 17:58 +0100 schrieb Mark Morschhäuser:
> > or "xhost +10.33.33.2" on 10.33.33.1 (if you run Xdmx on 10.33.33.2)
> ok, xhost (on 10.33.33.1) says now:
> "access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
> INET:10.33.33.2"
> 
> But I still get "(Fatal Error) dmx: dmxOpenDisplay: Unable to open display 
> 10.33.33.1:0"

Display managers often start the local Xserver with -nolisten tcp. So
the Xserver won't accept TCP connections. You said you were running KDE
on both machines? If I understand the idea correctly you should run a
naked X server on both machines instead (that listens to TCP) and run
KDE on Xdmx.

Regards,
  Felix

> 
> I tried "xhost +" too -> ""access control disabled, clients can connect from 
> any host"
> But I still cannot connect. Do I need to change something in /etc/X11/xdm? 
> Maybe there are some other security options running (KDE-stuff maybe?) that 
> don't allow access to my laptop's X.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark
> 
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