[Idle-dev] Serious problems getting idlefork to display on multiple xservers

[Guido van Rossum]

> The first user to run idlefork gets on fine. However, the next user,
> who is at a different terminal, which recieves the output of a
> different xserver instance (i.e. has a different $DISPLAY), cannot
> get idlefork at their own terminal.

Could it be that the RPC mechanism used to communicate between IDLE
and its child process (where code is executed) uses a constant port?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)