Sax Maniac's Journal: Fedora 9 WTF!

I upgraded to Fedora 9, and each time I do this it gets a little more broken.

First, KDE 4.0 is really broken with dual-head displays. It used to be mildly broken (focus problems) but now it's unusable (both desktops on one screen). Come on, guys. Is having two displays really that uncommon? It's 2008! Oh, and it's also much slower than KDE 3.5. For the first time in years, I've had to switch to GNOME. The horror.

GNOME also continues their trend of making things that used to work not work anymore. There seems to be a concerted effort to kill remote X displays, even on a trusted network, thanks to this annoying nanny known as GDM. At one point, you used to be able to set "NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=True", and that stopped working around Fedora 7 or 8, but I could work around it. I even did it the right way. Not by doing xhost +, but by having my login script put the right authorization cookies in my per-user file.

But, now, the icing the cake: "DisallowTCP=True" is now mandatory. That's great, they implement all sorts of other pointless options, but the whole reason X exists, network transparency, is killed. No way to work around it. No remote X for you!

Jeez guys, I log to remotely to about 35 machines in our datacenter and I don't want to set up 35 SSH sessions, dammit. We're firewalled. We're a small company. X's security is just fine.

Yeah, my fault for not booting the live CD.