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Re: error when starting X-Win


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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