XWin and multiple users
Kris Thielemans
kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk
Mon May 24 12:54:00 GMT 2004
Hi
I started a thread on this a few months ago. Some mail-archive searching
would help you.
Unless you want to use Fast-User-Switching (FUS), the solution is to exit
XWin before you log out ( a good idea in any case), e.g. by double cliking
the X icon in your task bar. If you do need FUS, apparently you can try to
start different users on different screens (using the -screen option of
XWin). I've never tried that though.
Kris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Joel Salomon
> Sent: 23 May 2004 18:48
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XWin and multiple users
>
>
> On a windows XP machine with cygwin-x installed, if I can start the X
> server, then other windows users cannot. re-assigning ownership of
> /tmp/.X11-unix/ from chesky to jake allows jake to run X when he is logged
> in, but then I cannot.
>
> The error message implies that /tmp/.X11-unix/ should be owned by root,
> but there is no such user.
>
> I'll try to subscribe to or monitor the list, but please cc me
> when replying.
>
> Thanks,
> --Joel
>
More information about the Cygwin-xfree
mailing list