error when starting X-Win

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Gmane User wrote:
> Martin Bartak wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How to delete </tmp/.X11-unix/X0> automatically when closing
>> X-session or,
>> how to prevent its emergence when starting X-sesion or,
>> how to make it re-writable by 'non-Administrator' user?
>>
>> I've got Cygwin 1.5.23-2 (full installation) on WinXP with two
>> user accounts. I use 'startx' command to invoke X-Win
>> with default parameters or options.
>> When starting X-Win, a file named 'X0' is placed into /tmp/.X11-unix/
>> and it probably locks the X-server for current user (?)
>> This file persists after exiting from X-Win and also after exiting
>> from Cygwin. No problem if I start Cygwin and X-Win again
>> as the same user, but when I login as another user (different from
>> Administrator) X-Win cannot be started unless the previous X0 file
>> is deleted.
> 
> I have sshd installed, so I ssh into the account that owns /tmp/.X11
> and remove it.  Better yet, I simply have the same account starting
> Xwin all the time.  For example, if user1 is the Xwin account and I am
> logged in as user2, I can ssh into user1 to start Xwin.  Or simply do
> Start->run, then use the runas command to run startxwin.bat as user1
> (full program path required).  The user2 login session hasn't been
> interrupted; you just need to "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and then start
> launching X applications.

The standard way this has been handled in the past is to set up a mount
point for '/tmp/' to a unique location.  In a default Windows
installation, the following should work (untested):

mount -b -u "$TEMP" /tmp

This keeps things unique for each user anyway.

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