Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

On 01.03.07 13:09, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc

The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X
forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0.

Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"?
the DISPLAY variable is createx by X server, when the X server, when it
allocates the port. child processes inherit the variable, they do not set
it. When you log elsewhere via SSH with X forwarding, ssh should allocate
proper socket and set DISPLAY to it

The problem is that he
doesn't get authority over :13 since :13 is occupied by another user
running VNC :13 (which seems to be also not fully functional). So I am
wondering what in the system keeps track and informs on available
displays to be used?

clearly there is a process occupying 6013 port (for :13)
Xvnc4 11990 cat 0u IPv4 107557584 TCP *:6013 (LISTEN)

so it must be that there is some list which got screwed up and provides
errorness numbers

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