On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Darren Tucker wrote:
> The wrinkle is that some xlibs (or xauths?) do special things with the
> string "localhost", eg map it to a Unix domain socket.
This isn't so, except perhaps for some proprietary X implementations. In
fact, display names of "localhost:<n>", instead of ":<n>" force the use of
TCP/IP. This is so for both XFree86 and X.Org.
Marc.
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