Re: XWin and multiple users

[aroushdi <aroushdi at hotmail dot com>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
>
> > Kris Thielemans wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > The -screen option will not help. Use other display numbers instead:
> >
> > user    startup           $DISPLAY       file in /tmp
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Alice   XWin :0 $OPTIONS  localhost:0.0  /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
> > Bob     XWin :1 $OPTIONS  localhost:1.0  /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
> > Charly  XWin :2 $OPTIONS  localhost:2.0  /tmp/.X11-unix/X2
> >
> > If the /tmp/.X11-unix directory still makes problems start XWin with
> > XWin -nolisten unix $OPTIONS
> > This way the :0.0 display will not work but localhost:0.0 and hostname:0.0
> > will still work and can be used as replacement.
>
>
> Just for the record: another solution is to make /tmp a user mount, and
> have it in a different location for each user.  That has other
> connotations, presumably, but I thought I'd mention it here for
> completeness.
> 	Igor
>
>
> > > > 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
How can we implement yser mount for temp . When i try to mount i get 
rejected . Can u tell us how
thks
amr