where to put `startx` serverargs

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon Sep 14 22:51:11 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:27:56PM -0400, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> 2009/9/12 Alexander Best <alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de>:
> > hi there,
> >
> > since i don't use ipv6 X produces the following warning when starting up:
> >
> > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/otaku:0
> > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
> >
> > so i'd to start X this way: `startx -- -nolisten inet6`.
> >
> > i looked through the man pages of startx and xinit but couldn't find where to
> > put the argument "-nolisten inet6" so `startx` picks it up automatically.
> >
> > currently i have this extra line in /usr/local/bin/startx: "serverargs =
> > -nolisten inet6" but that's just a hack because i couldn't find any
> > information on where to put the serverarg.
> >
> 
> It seems to me that there should be a place in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> However
> I cannot find it.
 
You can put them in /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc, together with the X
server. 

Roland
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