On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, John Tapsell <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/18 hd <[email protected]>: >> >> I'd like my X server is listening only on localhost >> >> Is there a command line option (or config file option) to limit the >> scope of the listening socket of X server ? >> >> there is '-nolisten' but this option seems disable the TCP stack > > What's wrong with that? Why would you want to communicate over TCP to > localhost?
You can e.g. use a tunnel to connect from a remote machine without having X listening on a public interface; of course as Alan suggested you can use the firewall to block inbound connections. Luca _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
