Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

[Peter Harris]

On 2010-07-13 09:14, sami md wrote:
>  Is it possible to capture X protocol traffic using ethreal,

Yes, although ethereal is deprecated in favour of wireshark.

>  The display N listens and accepts connections on TCP port 6000+N,
>  how to capture this traffic on ethreal?

Many distros disable TCP by default. Make sure it is enabled on your
machine. Then,

export DISPLAY=tcp/localhost:0

before running your app. Also, make sure you're running wireshark as
root (so it has permission to sniff traffic).

Peter Harris
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