Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:21:26 +0100 From: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org> To: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> Cc: oliver@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ? Message-ID: <20050316092126.GA24241@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <8cb27cbf050314010624b962fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cb27cbf05031211126ca5f67d@mail.gmail.com> <d13itj$a5s$1@sea.gmane.org> <8cb27cbf050314010624b962fb@mail.gmail.com>
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In gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:44:35 +0000 (UTC), Volker Stolz <vs@freebsd.org> wrote: >> * Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>: >> > So it looks like xfce4-session is trying to find a domain name server? >> > I say that because /etc/services says that port 53 is for DNS. >> >> You should probably raise this issue with the original xfce-authors >> (mailinglists?). We're just the packagers after all. > > I did write them and the developer responded. Here is what he said: > > "xfsm-dns.c contains safety checks that are executed on session start." > > "The problem is Xterm itself - the client part of libICE, to be exact. > Did you disable "Manage remote applications" in Settings -> Session and > Startup -> Advanced? (xfce4-session needs to be restarted afterwards)" You should probably talk to the port-maintainer (oliver@, cc:ing him right now). Maybe it's possible to find a way to make this behaviour the default at least for the FreeBSD-port. Or at least at a note to pkg-message. However, I don't feel too strongly about it now that I know it's user- configurable. Volker -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME
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