Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Michael K
Yes, xtrace looks just like what I need but I cant't get it to work on remote connections. If I run "xterm -display :9.0" from the machine where X server and xtrace (x11trace on Fedora) runs it works (and I see X11 conversations) but If I try from another machine on the network (xterm -display

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:47:03 + (UTC) Michael K said: > > To answer Grant's question. Yes, I had added the X ports but I've now turned > off the firewall just to be sure. Here is the wireshark conversation.  I'm > not knowledgeable enough to recognize the issue.. > > 10.0

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Michael K
OK, I got xtrace to work ("$ x11trace -n -D 192.168.1.1:10.0" & have the instrument connect to display 10.0) and it was more instructive... Got connection from 192.168.1.16:6144 000:<: am msb-first want 11:0 authorising with '' of length 0 000:>: Failed, version is 11:0 reason is '  Prohibited

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:22:18 + (UTC) Michael K said: > OK, I got xtrace to work ("$ x11trace -n -D 192.168.1.1:10.0" & have the > instrument connect to display 10.0) and it was more instructive... > > Got connection from 192.168.1.16:6144 > 000:<: am msb-first want 11:0 authorising with ''

Re: Connecting to a modern Xserver with an old client

2023-07-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 7/23/23 13:48, Carsten Haitzler wrote: So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg command line and it works! wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... well well. :) It was only added a few months ago: