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authorrunge <runge>2005-03-05 01:06:05 +0000
committerrunge <runge>2005-03-05 01:06:05 +0000
commitb8b96689bf29ae1b2fca12a59be9196d6a2acb25 (patch)
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add '-listen ipaddr' option
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/x11vnc/x11vnc.1 b/x11vnc/x11vnc.1
index 8df6029..3c29d76 100644
--- a/x11vnc/x11vnc.1
+++ b/x11vnc/x11vnc.1
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
.\" This file was automatically generated from x11vnc -help output.
-.TH X11VNC "1" "February 2005" "x11vnc " "User Commands"
+.TH X11VNC "1" "March 2005" "x11vnc " "User Commands"
.SH NAME
x11vnc - allow VNC connections to real X11 displays
- version: 0.7.1, lastmod: 2005-02-23
+ version: 0.7.2pre, lastmod: 2005-03-04
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B x11vnc
[OPTION]...
@@ -248,7 +248,19 @@ out with the "#" character in the usual way.
.PP
\fB-localhost\fR
.IP
-Same as \fB-allow\fR 127.0.0.1
+Same as "\fB-allow\fR \fI127.0.0.1\fR".
+.IP
+Note: if you want to restrict which network interface
+x11vnc listens on, see the \fB-listen\fR option below.
+E.g. "\fB-listen\fR \fIlocalhost\fR" or "\fB-listen\fR \fI192.168.3.21\fR".
+As a special case, the option "\fB-localhost\fR" implies
+"\fB-listen\fR \fIlocalhost\fR".
+.IP
+For non-localhost \fB-listen\fR usage, if you use the remote
+control mechanism (-R) to change the \fB-listen\fR interface
+you may need to manually adjust the \fB-allow\fR list (and
+vice versa) to avoid situations where no connections
+(or too many) are allowed.
.PP
\fB-input\fR \fIstring\fR
.IP
@@ -438,7 +450,7 @@ means to try to guess the DISPLAY from the utmpx login
database as well. So it "lurks" waiting for anyone
to log into an X session and then connects to it.
Specify a list of users after the = to limit which
-users will be tried. To enable a difference searching
+users will be tried. To enable a different searching
mode, if the first user in the list is something like
":0" or ":0-2" that indicates a range of DISPLAY
numbers that will be tried (regardless of whether
@@ -1202,6 +1214,8 @@ localhost enable \fB-localhost\fR mode
.IP
nolocalhost disable \fB-localhost\fR mode
.IP
+listen:str set \fB-listen\fR to str, empty to disable.
+.IP
input:str set \fB-input\fR to "str", empty to disable.
.IP
client_input:str set the K, M, B \fB-input\fR on a per-client
@@ -1484,7 +1498,7 @@ nooverlay_nocursor nooverlay_cursor nooverlay_yescursor
overlay_nocursor visual scale viewonly noviewonly
shared noshared forever noforever once timeout deny
lock nodeny unlock connect allowonce allow localhost
-nolocalhost accept gone shm noshm flipbyteorder
+nolocalhost listen accept gone shm noshm flipbyteorder
noflipbyteorder onetile noonetile solid_color solid
nosolid blackout xinerama noxinerama xrandr noxrandr
xrandr_mode padgeom quiet q noquiet modtweak nomodtweak
@@ -1634,6 +1648,11 @@ enable http proxy support
\fB-progressive\fR \fIheight\fR
.IP
enable progressive updating for slow links
+.PP
+\fB-listen\fR \fIipaddr\fR
+.IP
+listen for connections only on network interface with
+addr ipaddr. '-listen localhost' and hostname work too.
.SH "FILES"
.IR $HOME/.x11vncrc ,
.IR $HOME/.Xauthority