Re: X11: Maximum number of clients reached ?

Frederic Chardon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
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Le dim. 16 févr. 2020 à 20:22, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hi!
>
> > What is the trick to solve this when this error message comes up ?
>
> Oh my, what a mess:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/498652/does-x-window-have-a-maximum-number-limit-on-clients
>
> says: Yes, there's a limit, and it's a Xorg startup option.
>
> The limit is a compile time limit in
>
> x11-servers/xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.18.4/include/misc.h
>
> #define MAXCLIENTS     512
> #define LIMITCLIENTS   256     /* Must be a power of 2 and <= MAXCLIENTS */
>
> Changing MAXCLIENTS and LIMITCLIENTS to some other value like 2048
> seems to be possible, but needs an Xorg restart.
>
> TODO: test it, submit PR to increase values.

You can use the -maxclients option to launch X (see man Xserver)

The man page is a little bit misleading (it sounds as if 512 is the
max allowed), I used a value of 1024 in the past without issue (apart
from a warning in Xorg.log).


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