Perhaps the relavent setting can be toggled with: defaults com.apple.x11 nolisten_tcp -boolean true
http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2005/May/msg00073.html Satish On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Barry Smith wrote: > > On my Mac > > bsmith-laptop:~/Src/petsc-dev] barrysmith% echo $DISPLAY > /tmp/launch-r289TD/:0 > > I don't seem to have a problem with X when I change my IP address. I carry my > laptop around open it and use X and it pretty much always works. > > Barry > > > On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Boyana Norris wrote: > > > > > Apart from the idiot reasons, X11 tests can easily fail on an Apple laptop > > > because the X server becomes unusable every time the IP changes, which is > > > fairly frequently. I don't really use X a lot and thus do not restart the > > > server every time I move the laptop, so these tests fail almost all the > > > time > > > (but I've learned to ignore those errors). > > > > Linux on laptops used to have this problem - but it doesn't exist anymore. > > > > The reason is - x-server is now bound-to/listen-on a unix socket [:0] > > - and not a tcp socket [localhost:0] - so hostname change doesn't > > affect it. [from ps:] > > > > /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth > > /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-l9vnzI/database -nolisten tcp > > > > Not sure how this can be done on mac/windows.. > > > > Satish >
