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-rw-r--r--nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/man/nxagent.119
-rw-r--r--nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/connection.c20
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/man/nxagent.1 b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/man/nxagent.1
index fd2ec0f84..1abec5753 100644
--- a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/man/nxagent.1
+++ b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/man/nxagent.1
@@ -180,8 +180,23 @@ causes the server to generate a core dump on fatal errors.
specifies a file descriptor in the launching process. Rather than specifying
a display number, the X server will attempt to listen on successively higher
display numbers, and upon finding a free one, will write the port number back
-on this file descriptor as a newline-terminated string. The \-pn option is
-ignored when using \-displayfd.
+on this file descriptor as a newline-terminated string. The \fB\-pn\fR option is
+ignored when using \fB\-displayfd\fR.
+
+nxagent specific:
+
+(1) Other than in X.org's Xserver, you can use \fB\-displayfd\fR in
+conjunction with an explicit display number. If the explicit display number
+is not available (i.e., already in use), nxagent tries to figure out the next
+available display number,
+
+e.g.:
+
+ \fBnxagent\fR \fI\-displayfd 2 :50\fR
+
+(2) If -displayfd <X> is given with <X> equaling 2 (STDERR), then the
+display number string written to STDERR is beautified with some human-readable
+(machine-parseable) text.
.TP 8
.B \-deferglyphs \fIwhichfonts\fP
specifies the types of fonts for which the server should attempt to use
diff --git a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/connection.c b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/connection.c
index 8a5eb756a..1b01e1c46 100644
--- a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/connection.c
+++ b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/connection.c
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ SOFTWARE.
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#ifndef WIN32
#include <sys/socket.h>
@@ -364,6 +365,14 @@ NotifyParentProcess(void)
{
#if !defined(WIN32)
if (displayfd >= 0) {
+#ifdef NXAGENT_SERVER
+ if (displayfd == STDERR_FILENO)
+ {
+ const char *msg = "Auto-detected display number is: DISPLAY=:";
+ if (write(displayfd, msg, strlen(msg)) != strlen(msg))
+ FatalError("Cannot write display number to fd %d\n", displayfd);
+ }
+#endif
if (write(displayfd, display, strlen(display)) != strlen(display))
FatalError("Cannot write display number to fd %d\n", displayfd);
if (write(displayfd, "\n", 1) != 1)
@@ -418,7 +427,11 @@ CreateWellKnownSockets(void)
if (NoListenAll) {
ListenTransCount = 0;
}
+#ifndef NXAGENT_SERVER
else if ((displayfd < 0) || explicit_display) {
+#else
+ else if (displayfd < 0) {
+#endif /* ! NXAGENT_SERVER */
if (TryCreateSocket(atoi(display), &partial) &&
ListenTransCount >= 1)
if (!PartialNetwork && partial)
@@ -426,7 +439,14 @@ CreateWellKnownSockets(void)
}
else { /* -displayfd and no explicit display number */
Bool found = 0;
+#ifdef NXAGENT_SERVER
+ int i_offset = 0;
+ if (explicit_display)
+ i_offset = atoi(display);
+ for (i = i_offset; i < 65536 - X_TCP_PORT; i++) {
+#else
for (i = 0; i < 65536 - X_TCP_PORT; i++) {
+#endif /* NXAGENT_SERVER */
if (TryCreateSocket(i, &partial) && !partial) {
found = 1;
break;