Do not use SHM if display name doesn't look local. Verifying availability of SHM only by using response of SHM Attach is not reliable. There is always small chance that when we are a remote client of X server, we'll get shmid that is already in use by some local X client. In that case X server can not recognize that it is not accessing our shared memory but the one of the other client and will report success. This adds check for display name equivalent to one that was in Qt4. Determining whether the connection is local/remote from display name is not 100% reliable, but worked fine for years in Qt4. Signed-off-by: Michal Srb Index: qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbbackingstore.cpp =================================================================== --- qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1.orig/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbbackingstore.cpp +++ qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbbackingstore.cpp @@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ QXcbShmImage::QXcbShmImage(QXcbScreen *s m_shm_info.shmseg = xcb_generate_id(xcb_connection()); const xcb_query_extension_reply_t *shm_reply = xcb_get_extension_data(xcb_connection(), &xcb_shm_id); - bool shm_present = shm_reply != NULL && shm_reply->present; + bool is_local = (!displayName() || displayName()[0] == ':'); + bool shm_present = is_local && shm_reply != NULL && shm_reply->present; xcb_generic_error_t *error = NULL; if (shm_present) error = xcb_request_check(xcb_connection(), xcb_shm_attach_checked(xcb_connection(), m_shm_info.shmseg, m_shm_info.shmid, false)); Index: qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbobject.h =================================================================== --- qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1.orig/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbobject.h +++ qtbase-opensource-src-5.9.1/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbobject.h @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ public: xcb_atom_t atom(QXcbAtom::Atom atom) const { return m_connection->atom(atom); } xcb_connection_t *xcb_connection() const { return m_connection->xcb_connection(); } + const char *displayName() const { return m_connection->displayName(); } private: QXcbConnection *m_connection;