ubuntu and glxgears

[Man-wai Chang]

> 1. Security - you're not allowed to connect.

I was root.

> 2. I think X , by default now, only listens on a UNIX socket

Isn't Xorg using average Unix sockets?

> 3. Why is it 10.0 rather than 0.0? Are you tunnelling X over ssh?

That's indeed a puzzle. $DISPLAY is really "localhost:10.0" when I 
opened the terminal from GNOME.

How could I know what $DISPLAY the active GNOME is using?


-- 
   .~.    http://changmw.homeip.net
  / v \   Linux 2.6.13
/( _ )\ (Ubuntu)  22:11:03 up 4 days 3:44
   ^ ^    load average: 4.89 4.78 4.63