It was just an effect of Gentoo default settings =) They turn off tcp listening by default. Sorry about the scary posting. Peter Peter Zhelezniakov writes: > Hi there, > > I've upgraded from xfree 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 and encountered a strange problem. > With DISPLAY=sagittarius:0 (sagittarius being the name of my computer), > i cannot start X apps from any terminal window, for example: > > > xcalc > Error: Can't open display: sagittarius:0 > > Note however that i can start X clients from the window manager menu, and > X clients started from .xinitrc start ok under the same DISPLAY setting. > Window manager itself is started from .xinitrc. > > Changing DISPLAY to localhost:0 or my.ip.address:0 won't help. Changing it > to :0 makes things work ok. > > I've run netstat and noticed that nobody's listening on port 6000 which is > probably the reason of the problem. I'm not sure however why the server > isn't there. XFree 4.2.0 didn't have this problem. > > Any suggestions? What may be wrong here? > > It's all happening on a PC running Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.4.21-ck3, > libc 2.3.2, binutils 2.14.90.0.6, XFree 4.3.0. Attached are my config > file and logfile. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
