Re: xdm and listen=tcp

From: Yuri <yuri_at_aetern.org>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 15:03:41 UTC
Daniel Braniss wrote:
> hi,
> the short version:
> 	i start the X11 via the following line in /etc/ttys:
> 		ttyv8	“/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon” xterm on secure
> 
> this worked great since forever, but now(*) the default of Xorg is not to accept tcp connection,
> is there a simple way to fix this, apart of recompiling Xorg and somehow changing the default behavior?
> 
> *: now probably is a few years, since i have not uograded my WS for a while - why change if it’s working,
>    but mow it just went belly up :-(

You probably want /usr/local/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.