[PATCH xinit 0/1] startx: Pass "-nolisten tcp" by default

[Mark Kettenis]

> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:25:17 +0200
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> After doing the 1.3.4 release yesterday, I've started working on updating the
> Fedora packages to 1.3.4. While looking at our open bug list against xinit,
> I found one bug which is not yet resolved in 1.3.4 .
> 
> This patch fixes this, I realize that this is a behavior change, and as such
> may be a bit controversial, but I really believe that in this day and age
> "-nolisten tcp" by default is the right thing to do.

You're probably right.  However instead of fixing this in each and
every bit of code that starts and X server, wouldn't it make more
sense to simply change the default in the X server itself and add the
-listen option there to override things?