On Thu, 2022-12-29 at 13:03 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 09:17:28PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > Vít Ondruch wrote: > > > Dne 22. 12. 22 v 9:56 Olivier Fourdan napsal(a): > > > > When the connection fails, the Xserver returns a reason in > > > > plain text. > > > > In that case, the reason for the connection being rejected > > > > would be > > > > „Swapped clients prohibited“. > > > > > > Appreciate that there is at least some explanation, but if I saw > > > this > > > error, I would not be much smarter what is going on and how > > > should I > > > proceed .... > > > > Yes, that's a really bad error message. My reaction would be "What > > nonsense is that? I haven't swapped any clients." If it had at > > least > > said "byte-swapped" it would probably have gotten me searching in > > the > > right direction, but if the X server wants to be helpful it should > > say > > "big/little-endian mismatch; the option AllowSwappedClients is > > off". > > Thanks, I've changed the error message to say `byte-swapped`, it > hasn't > been merged upstream yet after all. This particular message is > handled > in the DDX-independent bits though (shared code for Xorg, Xwayland, > etc.), the option AllowSwappedClients only exists for Xorg since the > other X server don't have an xorg.conf.
Could the error message include a URL to documentation about the config option? That would really help discoverability. Dave _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
