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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile ports/x11/XFree86-4/files patch-startx
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On 28 Oct, Christopher Masto wrote:
>> >>   Log:
>> >>   Patch startx  so that X is  started with the "-nolisten  tcp" by
>> >>   default and  add a "-listen_tcp"  option to run X  in non-secure
>> >>   mode.
[...] 
> DISPLAY=localhost:0 is  occasionally a convenient hack  to work around
> the myriad of broken programs/drivers  that cause problems when trying
> to use  SHM, DGA,  XVideo, etc.  and don't have  an option  to disable
> them.
> 
> Not that it has much to do with this change.

Well, localhost:0 means  the client will contact the  server _over tcp_,
and now the server will not  be accepting such connections by default. I
that's plenty to do with this change...

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