On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Boyana Norris wrote: > Apart from the idiot reasons, X11 tests can easily fail on an Apple laptop > because the X server becomes unusable every time the IP changes, which is > fairly frequently. I don't really use X a lot and thus do not restart the > server every time I move the laptop, so these tests fail almost all the time > (but I've learned to ignore those errors).
Linux on laptops used to have this problem - but it doesn't exist anymore. The reason is - x-server is now bound-to/listen-on a unix socket [:0] - and not a tcp socket [localhost:0] - so hostname change doesn't affect it. [from ps:] /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-l9vnzI/database -nolisten tcp Not sure how this can be done on mac/windows.. Satish
