Re: using "-nolisten tcp" with X

[mike <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:39:01 +0000, Jim Breton said:

> I have been aliasing startx to "startx -nolisten tcp" in my local users'
>  ..bash_profiles in order to prevent X from listening on port 6000 on
>  startup.
>  
>  However, display managers (at least gdm anyway) don't care about these
>  aliases, and furthermore I would like to make this option the
>  system-wide default, so I'm wondering in which file I might be able to
>  specify this option for the X server to use at every invocation?  It
>  needs to be in a config file so it won't get trashed if any X packages
>  are upgraded.
>  
>  Also, under such a scheme, how would one then re-enable tcp listening
>  for an individual X session if that were desired for some reason?
>  

	Besides startx i added -nolisten tcp to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
and gdm.conf.

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