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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:47:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
To:        "Roger L. Beeman" <beeman@ip21.cvd-r8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with XFree config? 'can't open display:' from remote client
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203010845560.13993-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>
In-Reply-To: <yp8zo1tm5z7.fsf@ip21.cvd-r8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com>

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On 28 Feb 2002, Roger L. Beeman wrote:

> 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.

Thank you, this solves the problem.

Do you know when this change was introduced as the man page doesn't 
mention if the option is new or not.

Simon
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