From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 23:47:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es (217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es [217.126.145.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC66637B405 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F1C3D49; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:47:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:47:05 +0100 (CET) From: Simon J Mudd To: "Roger L. Beeman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with XFree config? 'can't open display:' from remote client In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Feb 2002, Roger L. Beeman wrote: > Simon J Mudd 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 -- Simon J Mudd, Tel: +34-91-408 4878, Mobile: +34-605-085 219 Madrid, Spain. email: sjmudd@pobox.com, Postfix RPM Packager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message