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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:55:12 -0500
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: X11's tcp port: FIXED
Message-ID:  <4B0D8BA0.8070406@telenix.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org>
References:  <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org>

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick
> off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD
> machine, but it won't work.  I know all the security things, I know I had xhost
> and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open,
> but netstat shows me no  such port.
> 
> I usually, to defeat the "nolisten" options usually set on, edit my startx file
> to remove any such line.  You just search for "nolisten tcp" or some subset of
> that (tcp might get set separately) but as I expected, I'd edited that line out
> ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11
> screen.  However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke
> netstat to show my ip port 6000.  I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried
> kde3, I even tried twm, I just can't get IP port 6000.  You know that without
> that port,  you can't run remote X applications.
> 
> This used to work.  Any idea why it's stopped working for me?

Can't really say why, but it just began to work, entirely mysteriously.  I would
rather know about these things, but I'll take working over non-working, I guess.



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