Problem with -multiwindow and -clipboard when using -nolisten tcp

[Brian Willis]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Brian Willis wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to turn off the tcp port for Cygwin/X.  I would like to just 
>>close it down on the outside interface and still have it listen on the 
>>loopback device.  I have not been able to find a way to do that.  The 
>>closest thing I could find is to turn off tcp all together.  This does 
>>work.  I'm able to bring up xterms and the whole deal.  I get odd 
>>behavior after that.  The xterm allows me to copy and paste within the 
>>window, but it doesn't copy to the Microsoft Windows clipboard.   The x 
>>button on the upper right corner of the xterm also does not work.  You 
>>can only open one xterm or other type of xforwarding because multiwindow 
>>hasn't loaded.  Is there a setting to tell multiwindow and clipboard 
>>where the display is?  I can see them trying to access the loopback. 
>>Here is output from my xwin.log:
>>
>>Welcome to the XWin X Server
>>Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>>Release: 6.8.2.0-2
>>
>>Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>
>>XWin was started with the following command line:
>>
>>XWin :0 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp -silent-dup-error
>>
>>winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>>winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping: 5
>>
>>I can see the clipboard and multiwin try and use the loopback and fail. 
>>  Is there something I'm missing?  Can I use loopback without the 
>>outside interface listening?
> 
> 
> Multiwindow and clipboard require enabled tcp transport. But you can create
> patches which force the threads to use :0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1:0.0 if 
> the tcp transport is switched off.
> 
> bye
> 	ago

Is there any way to make the X server listen on loopback but not on the 
outside interface?  The firewall software does all interfaces, not just 
the outside.
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