[plug] Monitoring the Unix domain network

[Cameron Patrick]

Peter F Bradshaw wrote:

> Actually there may be another way to do want I want. What I really need
> to do is monitor the X11 traffic (on the same machine). I think I have
> two threads talking on on descriptor. Is there a way to do this other
> than by monitoring the "network"?

If you tell your local X server to listen on TCP sockets and then set
DISPLAY=localhost:0 you should be able to use 'tcpdump -i lo' to
observe the traffic.

Cameron