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Re: interface bindings of x-server
- From: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp dot com>
- To: "roland at webde" <devzero at web dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, xserver at pdx dot freedesktop dot org, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:13:16 -0800
- Subject: Re: interface bindings of x-server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Around 2 o'clock on Nov 19, "roland@webde" wrote:
> Keith, could you put this (being able to specify the interface bindings of
> the xserver on the commandline) as a feature request on http://
> www.freedesktop.org/Software/XserverWishlist if you find this feature
> request useful ? i registerd a wiki account, but logging in doesn`t seem to
> work for me.
I'd like to switch the server so that -nolisten tcp is the default; I
don't see much sense in having it listen to even 127.0.0.1. But, if you
wanted to make the list of IP addresses that the server bound to
configurable, that seems like a good idea.
ssh -X -C should be the only way to talk to an X server over the network,
at least for now. If we find a better way in the future, we might revisit
this.
Patches to implement any such changes would be gratefully accepted to the
fd.o X server tree.
The wiki has anti-defacement "security"; please ask most anyone on
#freedesktop to be added to the list of accounts with wiki write access.
-keith