PiotrAF <piotraf@nospam.poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.12.04.17.41.15.183714@nospam.poczta .onet.pl>...
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:17:29 -0800, Dan wrote:
>
> > This, I believe, is the crux of my problem: X11 is not listening on port 6000
> > of my gentoo boxes. With other distibutions, this is default bahavior, but
> > apparently it's not default for X running on gentoo. What do I need to do
> > to get X11 listening on port 6000?
>
> Probably because there is a message at the end of emerge xfree that says:
> #tail -n 20 /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild
> ewarn "Listening on tcp is disabled by default with startx."
> ewarn "To enable it, edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx."

Yes, that was it. I had noticed this morning that it worked if I used
xinit but not if I used startx. Made a small edit to startx and all
my issues went away.

Thanks for your help!

--Dan