Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread S Watkins
Paul Makepeace wrote: Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) I have a big X session I'd rather not lose, and Phoenix still doesn't have a Save Session

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Paul Makepeace wrote: Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) No. It's controlled by a -nolisten tcp flag. You'd have to restart the server to change it. I

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Dominic Mitchell wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: I have a big X session I'd rather not lose, and Phoenix still doesn't have a Save Session feature :-/ But I'd like to test another headless machine's X clients. The only other option is to use ssh X tunneling. Which is far more secure anyway...

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Marty Pauley
On Wed Mar 19 10:03:48 2003, S Watkins wrote: So you're trying to get the XServer display on system A to receive Xclients from system B, right? Try using xhost. I suspect Paul is running X with the -nolisten option, so xhost won't help. Paul, if I wanted to do what you wanted to do, I would

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Ceri Storey
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:47:04AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) No, but you can use ssh to forward X11 connections.

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Nick Woolley
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2003 12:47 am, Paul Makepeace wrote: Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) Maybe you could use run a vnc server. That would seem to

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread Nick Woolley
Paul M said: But I'd like to test another headless machine's X clients. ^ So actually, maybe I was too hasty suggesting VNC.

Re: Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-19 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Nick Woolley wrote: Paul M said: But I'd like to test another headless machine's X clients. ^ So actually, maybe I was too hasty suggesting VNC. Not necessarily, I'm reliably informed that VNC runs X desktops as

Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) I have a big X session I'd rather not lose, and Phoenix still doesn't have a Save Session feature :-/ But I'd like to