[plug] Monitoring the Unix domain network

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Cameron;

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> 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.

Great. That's exactly what I need!

>
> Cameron
>
>

Cheers

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