error when starting X-Win

[Gmane User]

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Gmane User wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Which made me think "wouldn't it be nice if mounting didn't have
>> to be done for each user account?".  I install cygwin on whatever
>> machine (of several) that I happen to work on, so such a global
>> fix would make life easier.  And there is a solution.
>> With a bit of refresher from the unix shell newsgroup, I was
>> prompted into realizing that startxwin.sh launches XWin in the
>> background, which allows the PID to be captured with "$!".  So
>> if one really wanted to, startxwin could use "wait" with XWin's
>> PID to wait for XWin to finish, after which it deletes
>> /tmp/.X11-unix.  No need to maintain user-specific /tmp mounts.
>> One could probably create a start-menu shortcut that invokes
>> startxwin.sh with the run command, similar to the way it is used
>> in startxwin.bat.
> 
> If memory serves me correctly, this was talked about before and perhaps
> even implemented.  If the latter is actually true, then it got lost at
> some point (perhaps about the time that the Cygwin-X maintainer was
> lost ;-) ).

Yeah, well, it's probably not the end-all-be-all solution.  It occured
to me that if the startxwin.sh script got interrupted somehow e.g. due
to forced shutdown, power outage, logoff, or "kill", then it never runs
the command that erases /tmp.X11-unix.

Are you the new maintainer?


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