error when starting X-Win

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Gmane User wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
>> 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 "$TEMP" /tmp
>>
>> This keeps things unique for each user anyway.
> 
> 
> That's quite cool.  I decorated it a bit to keep it all within my cygwin
> file space.  Specifically, in my all-purpose ~/Temp directory:
> 
> 	mkdir -p ~/Temp/tmp
> 	mount -b -u c:/cygwin/home/${USER}/Temp/tmp /tmp
> 
> Thanks!


You're welcome.  Glad I could help.


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