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Cc: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Help with XFree config? 'can't open display:' from remote client
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From: beeman@ip21.cvd-r8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com (Roger L. Beeman)
Date: 28 Feb 2002 17:28:28 -0800
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Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> writes:

> I can't seem to find from the X man pages how to enable the X server to 
> listen on port 6000.

See man startx.

  The '-listen_tcp' option of startx enables the TCP/IP transport type
  which is needed for remote X displays.  This is disabled by default
  for security reasons.

Roger L. Beeman

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