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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:30:55 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xhost does not work as expected
Message-ID:  <4450C78F.102@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4450C630.2090008@esiee.fr>
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Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Olivier Nicole wrote:
>> What window manager are you using?
>>
>> I started my laptop connected to root and lauched KDE and found out
>> that it was not listening to TCP port 6000.
> 
> In fact yes I run KDE too ...
> and yes it does not listen on 6000 port ...
> 
> performing a "ps -ax | grep X" give that result
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-3w0oIN (Xorg)
> 
> I think the -nolisten option is guilty ...
> 
> My problem is I need KDE to work properly ...
> I'm going to check KDE launching scripts to try avoiding it.
> 
> I'll let you know if I succeed :-)

It's most likely because you (or someone masquerading as you, ie 
startkde) is using a default startx setup:

gcooper@sprsd /usr/X11R6 $ grep -r nolisten *

#snip

X11R6/bin/startx:defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp -br"

-Garrett



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